Peter (fish)

Peter is a genus of small marine fish in the subfamily Gobiinae, the true gobies. They are native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean where they occur around the coasts of Senegal and the island nations of São Tomé and Principe and Cape Verde Islands. The name honours two marine biologists called Peter - Peter Wirtz and Peter J. Miller.^[1] Both species form symbiotic relationships with burrowing shrimps, and were formerly allocated to genus Didogobius

Peter
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Gobiinae
Genus:	Peter Schliewen, 2023
Type species
Didogobius wirtzi Schliewen & Kovačić, 2008

Species

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

• Peter amicuscaridis Schliewen & Kovačić, 2008
• Peter wirtzi Schliewen & Kovačić, 2008