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Lotilia

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Lotilia
Lotilia Graciliosa at house reef (Cebu, Philippines)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Lotilia
Klausewitz, 1960
Type species
Lotilia graciliosa
Klausewitz, 1960

Lotilia is a small genus of gobies native to the Indo-Pacific region. The members of this genus are commensal with shrimps of the genus Alpheus.

Species

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There are two recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

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  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Lotilia". FishBase. June 2013 version.
  2. ^ Shibukawa, K., Suzuki, T. & Senou, H. (2012): Review of the shrimp-associated goby genus Lotilia (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species from the West Pacific. Zootaxa, 3362: 54–64.