- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Gobies, cardinalfishes and allies
- ›Gobies and allies
- ›Mudskippers and Allies
- ›Rock-climbing gobies
Sicyopus
Sicyopus is a genus of small gobies. Most are native to fast-flowing streams and rivers in Southeast Asia and Melanesia, but S. zosterophorus also occurs in China, Japan and Palau, S. nigriradiatus is restricted to Pohnpei, S. jonklaasi is restricted to Sri Lanka, and S. lord is restricted to Madagascar.
8 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 8 known species

Ornate Fish
speciesSicyopus zosterophorus

Sicyopus auxilimentus
speciesSicyopus auxilimentus

Sicyopus rubicundus
speciesSicyopus rubicundus

Sicyopus discordipinnis
speciesSicyopus discordipinnis

Lipstick goby
speciesSicyopus jonklaasi
Sicyopus lord
speciesSicyopus lord
Sicyopus multisquamatus
speciesSicyopus multisquamatus
Bereme Creek Goby
speciesSicyopus beremeensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Sicyopus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 92036.