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Kelloggella

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Kelloggella
Kelloggella cardinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Kelloggella
D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1905
Type species
Enypnias oligolepis
O. P. Jenkins, 1903
Synonyms
  • Agunia Fowler, 1946
  • Atuona Herre, 1935
  • Itbaya Herre, 1927

Kelloggella is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. This genus is distributed in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The genus name honours the American entomologist Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1867-1937) of Stanford University, the discoverer of Kelloggella cardinalis.[1]

Species

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There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[2]

References

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  1. ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Kelloggella". FishBase. June 2018 version.