Diplecogaster is a genus of fish in the family Gobiesocidae found in Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.[2]
Species
There are currently 8 recognized species in this genus:[3]
- Diplecogaster bimaculata (Bonnaterre, 1788) (Two-spotted clingfish)
- Diplecogaster ctenocrypta Briggs, 1955 (Eastern Atlantic deep-water clingfish) [4]
- Diplecogaster euxinica Murgoci, 1964 [4]
- Diplecogaster megalops Briggs, 1955 (Big-eye clingfish)
- Diplecogaster pectoralis Briggs, 1955 [4]
- Diplecogaster roseiocula Fricke & Wirtz, 2023
- Diplecogaster tonstricula Fricke, Wirtz & Brito, 2015 (Eastern Atlantic cleaner clingfish) [4]
- Diplecogaster umutturali Bilecenoğlu, Yokeş & Kovačić, 2017 [5]
References
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). “Diplecogaster“. Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). “Species in genus Diplecogaster“. FishBase. June 2017 version.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). “Species in the genus Diplecogaster“. Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
- ^ a b c d Fricke, R.; Wirtz, P.; Brito, A. (2015). “Diplecogaster tonstricula, a new species of cleaning clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Canary Islands and Senegal, eastern Atlantic Ocean, with a review of the Diplecogaster ctenocrypta species-group”. Journal of Natural History. 50 (11–12): 731–748. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1079659.
- ^ Bilecenoğlu, M.; Yokeş, M.B.; Kovačić, M. (2017). “A new species of Diplecogaster (Actinopterygii: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea”. Zoology in the Middle East. 63 (3): 210–218. doi:10.1080/09397140.2017.1349119.