Bathygobius

Bathygobius is a circumtropical genus of fish in the family Gobiidae.^[1]

Bathygobius
Cheekscaled frill-goby (B. cotticeps)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Bathygobius Bleeker, 1878
Type species
Gobius nebulopunctatus Valenciennes, 1837
Synonyms
Chlamydes O. P. Jenkins, 1903 Koumansiasis Visweswara Rao, 1967 Mapo Smitt, 1900 Pyosicus J. L. B. Smith, 1960

Species

There are currently 29 recognized species in this genus:^[2]

• Bathygobius aeolosoma (J. D. Ogilby, 1889)
• Bathygobius albopunctatus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Whitespotted goby)
• Bathygobius andrei (Sauvage, 1880)
• Bathygobius antilliensis Tornabene, C. C. Baldwin & Pezold, 2010 (Antilles frillfin)
• Bathygobius arundelii (Garman, 1899)
• Bathygobius burtoni (O'Shaughnessy, 1875)
• Bathygobius casamancus (Rochebrune, 1880)
• Bathygobius coalitus (E. T. Bennett, 1832) (Whitespotted frillgoby)
• Bathygobius cocosensis (Bleeker, 1854) (Cocos frill-goby)
• Bathygobius cotticeps (Steindachner, 1879) (Cheekscaled frill-goby)
• Bathygobius curacao (Metzelaar, 1919) (Notchtongue goby)
• Bathygobius cyclopterus (Valenciennes, 1837) (Spotted frillgoby)
• Bathygobius fishelsoni Goren, 1978
• Bathygobius fuscus (Rüppell, 1830) (Dusky frillgoby)
• Bathygobius geminatus Tornabene, C. C. Baldwin & Pezold, 2010 (Twin-spotted frillfin)
• Bathygobius hongkongensis C. Lam, 1986
• Bathygobius karachiensis Hoda & Goren, 1990
• Bathygobius kreftii (Steindachner, 1866) (Krefft's frillgoby)
• Bathygobius laddi (Fowler, 1931) (Brownboy goby)
• Bathygobius lineatus (Jenyns, 1841) (Southern frillfin)
• Bathygobius meggitti (Hora & Mukerji, 1936) (Meggitt's goby)
• Bathygobius mero G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Nisha K. Ichida, 2024^[3]
• Bathygobius mystacium Ginsburg, 1947 (Island frillfin)
• Bathygobius niger (J. L. B. Smith, 1960) (Black minigoby)
• Bathygobius ostreicola (B. L. Chaudhuri, 1916)
• Bathygobius panayensis (D. S. Jordan & Seale, 1907)
• Bathygobius petrophilus (Bleeker, 1853)
• Bathygobius ramosus Ginsburg, 1947 (Panamic frillfin)
• Bathygobius smithi R. Fricke, 1999
• Bathygobius soporator (Valenciennes, 1837) (Frillfin goby)