Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5330.2.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8253141 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EC87BD-FFB2-0A2F-80F4-F987FD93FF12 |
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Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888) |
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31. Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888) View in CoL View at ENA ―Longnose Goby, Arabian Freshwater Goby, Jayakar’s Goby― Native
Taxonomy. Original description: Gobius jayakari Boulenger, 1888:663 View in CoL , Pl. 54 (fig. 2) [ from a freshwater body near Muscat, Oman; Syntypes: BMNH 1887.11.11.234-237 (4) ]. Synonyms: Gobius percivali Boulenger, 1901 .
Status in the Arabian Peninsula. Recorded from Oman in original description by Boulenger (1888); confirmed by Freyhof et al. (2020), Al Jufaili et al. (2021), and Esmaeili et al. (2022).
General distribution. Northwestern Indian Ocean: southern Yemen and Gulf of Oman east to Iran. Possibly introduced in Pakistan. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.
Distribution in the Arabian Peninsula. Oman: Wadis Shab, Darsit, and several other Wadis adjacent to the coastal area of the Arabian Sea, Dhofar region, UAE, Yemen.
Economic importance. No commercial importance. Conservation. Least Concern (LC).
Remarks: Record of Awaous aeneofuscus (Peters, 1852) in Wadi Hatta watershed ( UAE and Oman) is misidentification ( Esmaeili et al. 2022).
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United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)] |
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Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888)
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Gobius percivali
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Gobius jayakari
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