World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

WRiMS taxon details

Favonigobius Whitley, 1930

AphiaID

269154 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:269154)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Gobiinae Cuvier, 1816

Synonymised names

Papillogobius Gill & Miller, 1990 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Species Favonigobius melanobranchus (Fowler, 1934)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2021). FishBase. Favonigobius Whitley, 1930. Accessed through: Rius, M.; Ahyong, S.; Costello, M. J.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Katsanevakis, S.; Lejeusne, C.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Poore, G. C. B; Robinson, T. B.; Sterrer, W.; Turon, X.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2021) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: http://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269154 on 2026-09-13

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2026). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Favonigobius Whitley, 1930. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=269154 on 2026-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-15 10:18:16Z

created

Bailly, Nicolas

2013-03-04 16:27:12Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

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original description (of Papillogobius Gill & Miller, 1990) Gill, H. S.; Miller, P. J. (1990). A new genus and species of goby from the Swan-Avon estuary, Western Australia, with a redescription of the genus Favonigobius Whitley, 1930. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 14 (4): 503-525. [details]

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 431-554. [details]

Present

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Catalog of Fishes (from synonym Papillogobius Gill & Miller, 1990)
To Catalog of Fishes
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Favonigobius)
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To ITIS