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Odontamblyopus rebecca

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Species of fish

Odontamblyopus rebecca
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Odontamblyopus
Species: O. rebecca
Binomial name
Odontamblyopus rebecca
Murdy & Shibukawa, 2003

Odontamblyopus rebecca is a species of eel goby native to marine and brackish waters of Vietnam. This species can reach a length of 14.1 centimetres (5.6 in) SL. This species is mostly known from several specimens collected from a fish market in Haiphong, Vietnam.

Etymology

The specific name honours Edward O. Murdy's wife Rebecca Rootes.

References

  1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Odontamblyopus rebecca". FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. Murdy, E. O. & Shibukawa, K. (2003): Odontamblyopus rebecca, a new species of amblyopine goby from Vietnam with a key to known species of the genus (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae). Zootaxa, 138: 1-6.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (6 December 2017). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
Taxon identifiers
Odontamblyopus rebecca


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