Greenback gauvina

Greenback gauvina
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Eleotridae
Genus:	Bunaka; Herre, 1927
Species:	B. gyrinoides
Binomial name
	Bunaka gyrinoides; (Bleeker, 1853)
Synonyms
	Eleotris gyrinoides Bleeker, 1853; Guavina gyrinoides (Bleeker, 1853); Oxyeleotris gyrinoides (Bleeker, 1853); Bunaka pinguis Herre, 1927; Lizettea pelewensis Herre, 1936; Bunaka pelewensis (Herre, 1936); Boroda francoi Roxas & Ablan, 1940; Bunaka sticta Herre, 1942;

The greenback guavina (Bunaka gyrinoides) is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae that inhabits fresh, marine, and brackish waters in estuaries and mangrove swamps from Sri Lanka to Micronesia and Australia. This species grows to a length of 34 cm (13 in), though most do not exceed 15 cm (5.9 in). This species is the only known member of its genus.^[2]

References

^ Larson, H. (2012). "Bunaka gyrinoides". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T172450A1342565. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T172450A1342565.en.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bunaka gyrinoides". FishBase. April 2013 version.

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[IUCN-1] Larson, H. (2012). "Bunaka gyrinoides". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012: e.T172450A1342565. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T172450A1342565.en.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Bunaka gyrinoides". FishBase. April 2013 version.

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