Economidichthys
| Economidichthys Temporal range:
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|---|---|
| Economidichthys pygmaeus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobionellinae |
| Genus: | Economidichthys Bianco, Bullock, P. J. Miller & Roubal, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| Gobius pygmaeus Holly, 1929
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Economidichthys is a genus of freshwater gobies endemic to Greece. The name of this genus honours the Greek ichthyologist Panos Economidis.[1]
Species
There are currently two recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Economidichthys mornosensis[3]
- Economidichthys pygmaeus (Holly, 1929) (Western Greece goby)
- Economidichthys trichonis Economidis & P. J. Miller, 1990 (Trichonis dwarf goby)
The fossil species †Economidichthys altidorsalis Schwarzhans, Bradić & Bratishko, 2016 is known from the Middle Miocene of Austria, while †Economidichthys triangularis (Weiler, 1943) is known from the Middle Miocene of Romania and Croatia. These species inhabited marine habitats, suggesting that modern Economidichthys species are descendants of marine taxa.[4]
References
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (d-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Economidichthys". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Freyhof, Jörg; Geiger, Matthias F.; Zogaris, Stamatis (2026-02-13). "Economidichthys mornosensis, a new freshwater sand-goby from Greece (Teleostei: Oxudercidae)". Zootaxa. 5759 (1): 26–40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5759.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Schwarzhans, Werner; Ahnelt, Harald; Carnevale, Giorgio; Japundžić, Sanja; Bradić, Katarina; Bratishko, Andriy (2017-03-01). "Otoliths in situ from Sarmatian (Middle Miocene) fishes of the Paratethys. Part III: tales from the cradle of the Ponto-Caspian gobies". Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 136 (1): 45–92. doi:10.1007/s13358-016-0120-7. ISSN 1664-2384.