Bathygobius burtoni
Bathygobius burtoni is a species of goby native to the Atlantic shores of western Africa where it is a denizen of tide pools. This species can reach a total length of 8 cm (3.1 in).[2] The specific name honours Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), the English explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat, who collected the type specimen.[3] This species has a very limited distribution and is known from only five locations in an area in which there has been a hige increase in the human population and the IUCN has assessed this species an Endangered.[1]
| Bathygobius burtoni | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Bathygobius |
| Species: | B. burtoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Bathygobius burtoni (O'Shaughnessy, 1875) | |
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References
- Carpenter, K.E.; Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; de Bruyne, G. & de Morais, L. (2015). "Bathygobius burtoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e. Retrieved 10 November 2017.{{cite iucn}}: error: malformed |page= identifier (help)
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Bathygobius burtoni" in FishBase. April 2013 version.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
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