Acentrogobius

Acentrogobius is a genus of gobies native to marine, fresh and brackish waters of the coasts of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Acentrogobius
Acentrogobius nebulosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Acentrogobius Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Gobius chlorostigma Bleeker, 1849[1]

Acentrogobius matsya is an otolith-based fossil species found in the Burdigalian (Miocene) Quilon Formation of southwestern India.^[2]

Species

There are currently 28 recognized species in this genus:^[3]

• Acentrogobius andhraensis (Herre, 1944)^[3]
• Acentrogobius audax Smith, 1959^[3]
• Acentrogobius brevirostris (Günther, 1861)^[3]
• Acentrogobius caninus Valenciennes, 1837 (Tropical sand goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius cenderawasih G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Cenderawasih goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius chlorostigmatoides Bleeker, 1849 (Greenspot goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius cyanomos Bleeker, 1849^[3]
• Acentrogobius dayi Koumans, 1941 (Day's goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius ennorensis Menon & Rema Devi, 1980^[3]
• Acentrogobius griseus F. Day, 1876 (Grey goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius janthinopterus Bleeker, 1853 (Robust mangrove goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius limarius G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Hadiaty, 2015 (Batanta mud goby) ^[4][3]
• Acentrogobius masoni F. Day, 1873^[3]
• Acentrogobius matsya Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith-based fossil species)^[2]
• Acentrogobius moloanus Herre, 1927 (Barcheek amoya)^[3]
• Acentrogobius multifasciatus Herre, 1927
• Acentrogobius nebulosus Forsskål, 1775 (Shadow goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius pellidebilis Y. J. Lee & I. S. Kim, 1992^[3]
• Acentrogobius pflaumii Bleeker, 1853 (Striped sandgoby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius quinquemaculatus Allen, 2017
• Acentrogobius simplex Sauvage, 1880 (Bagamoyo goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius suluensis Herre, 1927 (Sulu goby)^[3]
• Acentrogobius therezieni Kiener, 1963^[3]
• Acentrogobius vanderloosi G. R. Allen, 2015 (Mudslope goby) ^[5][3]
• Acentrogobius viganensis Steindachner, 1893^[3]
• Acentrogobius violarisi G. R. Allen, 2015 (Alotau goby) ^[5][3]
• Acentrogobius virgatulus (Jordan & Snyder, 1901)^[3]
• Acentrogobius viridipunctatus Valenciennes, 1837 (Spotted green goby)^[3]