Rhyacichthyidae
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The family Rhyacichthyidae, or loach gobies is a small family of perciform
fish that consists of two genera and three species. They inhabit marine and fresh water in Oceania and the eastern Pacific.
Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...
fish that consists of two genera and three species. They inhabit marine and fresh water in Oceania and the eastern Pacific.
Species
- Genus Protogobius
- Protogobius attiti Watson & Pöllabauer, 1998
- Genus Rhyacichthys
- Rhyacichthys aspro Loach goby (ValenciennesAchille ValenciennesAchille Valenciennes was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology...
, 1837) - Rhyacichthys guilberti Dingerkus & Séret, 1992
- Rhyacichthys aspro Loach goby (Valenciennes