Awaous banana
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Oxudercidae |
Genus: | Awaous |
Species: | A. banana
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Binomial name | |
Awaous banana (Valenciennes, 1837)
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Awaous banana, the river goby, is a species of goby native to fresh and brackish water stream and rivers from the southern United States through Central America to Venezuela and Peru. This species can reach a length of 30 centimetres (12 in) SL. It is important to local commercial fisheries.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Awaous banana". FishBase. April 2013 version.
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Categories:
- Awaous
- Freshwater fish of North America
- Freshwater fish of Central America
- Freshwater fish of South America
- Fish of Aruba
- Euryhaline fish of Brazil
- Freshwater fish of Cuba
- Fish of the Dominican Republic
- Fish of Guatemala
- Euryhaline fish of Nicaragua
- Freshwater fish of Peru
- Vertebrates of Puerto Rico
- Freshwater fish of Venezuela
- Taxa named by Achille Valenciennes
- Fish described in 1837
- Gobionellinae stubs