Pandaka (fish)

Pandaka is a genus of fish in the goby subfamily, Gobionellinae, native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of Asia and the western Pacific Ocean.[1] Some species in the genus are among the smallest fish in the world;[2] the male P. pygmaea can be just 9 mm (0.35 in) in standard length at maturity.[3]

Pandaka
Pandaka pygmaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Pandaka
Herre, 1927
Type species
Pandaka pusilla
Herre, 1927
Synonyms
  • Berowra Whitley, 1928

The genus name is a word for a dwarf in the a number of languages of the Philippines and refers to the small size of these fish.[4]

Species

There are currently seven recognized species in this genus:[1]

  • Pandaka bipunctata H. L. Wu, 2008
  • Pandaka lidwilli (McCulloch, 1917) (dwarf tiger goby)
  • Pandaka pusilla Herre, 1927 (tiny pygmy-goby)
  • Pandaka pygmaea Herre, 1927 (dwarf pygmy goby)
  • Pandaka rouxi (M. C. W. Weber, 1911) (Roux's pygmy-goby)
  • Pandaka silvana (Barnard, 1943) (dwarfgoby)
  • Pandaka trimaculata Akihito & Meguro, 1975
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References
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pandaka in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. Mukai, T., et al. (2004). Genetic and geographical differentiation of Pandaka gobies in Japan. Ichthyological Research 51(3), 222-27.
  3. Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Pandaka pygmaea. FishBase. 2011.
  4. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 August 2018.


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