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GBIF·2378022speciesAnimalia228 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyGobiidae
  5. ›genusOxyurichthys
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IUCN LC · Least concern

purple arrowfin goby

Oxyurichthys visayanus Herre, 1927

Also calledミナミサルハゼ (jpn) · 南方溝鰕虎 (zho) · 南方溝鰕虎魚 (zho) · 南方鴿鯊 (zho)

First described in: Herre, A.W.C.T. (1927). The Philippine Bureau of Science monographic publications on fishes: gobies of the Philippines and China Sea. Monogr. Bur. Sci. Manila 23:1-352.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Oxyurichthys visayanus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2378022.