Goby

Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized

ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which
are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments.
Traditionally most of the species called gobies have been classified in
the order Perciformes as the suborder Gobioidei but in the 5th Edition
of Fishes of the World this suborder is elevated to an order
Gobiiformes within the clade Percomorpha.[1] Not all the species in
the Gobiiformes are referred to as gobies and the "true gobies" are
placed in the family Gobiidae, while other species referred to as A goby of the genus Rhinogobius
gobies have been placed in the Oxudercidae.[1]. Goby is also used to
describe some species which are not classified within the order
Gobiiformes, such as the engineer goby or convict blenny Pholidichthys leucotaenia.[2] The word goby
derives from the Latin gobius meaning "gudgeon",[3] and some species of goby, especially the sleeper gobies
in the family Eleotridae and some of the dartfishes are called "gudgeons", especially in Australia.[4]

See also
Gobius

References
1. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (https://sites.google.co
m/site/fotw5th/) (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 752. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Pholidichthys leucotaenia" (http://www.fishbas
e.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?genusname=Pholidichthys&speciesname=leucotaenia)
in FishBase. June 2018 version.
3. "Definition of 'goby' " (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/goby). Collins
English Dictionary. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
4. Helfman G.; Collette B. & Facey D (1997). The Diversity of Fishes. Blackwell Publishing.
p. 264. ISBN 0-86542-256-7.

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