Coryphopterus

Benjamin C. Victor, 2007, Coryphopterus kuna, a new goby (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from the western Caribbean, with the identification of the late larval stage and an estimate of the pelagic larval duration., Zootaxa 1526, pp. 51-61 : 51

[[ Coryphopterus Bohlke and Robins ]]

Although a number of gobioid species have been recently described from both coasts of the Americas, the genus Coryphopterus in the New World has seen few changes since the original treatment by Bohlke and Robins in 1960 and 1962. They listed nine Atlantic species and two eastern Pacific species. Since their treatise, Coryphopterus venezuelae (Cervigon) has been described from Venezuela ( Cervigón 1966, 1994) and Coryphopterus tortugae (Jordan) has been redescribed and is widespread in the Caribbean (Garzon-Ferreira and Acero 1990, Greenfield & Johnson 1999). A number of new Indo-Pacific Coryphopterus spp. have been described by Randall (2001) who provided a key to the species for that region. However, the validity of including the Indo-Pacific species in this genus has been questioned recently by Thacker and Cole (2002) and they suggest that those species be returned to Fusigobius spp. Furthermore, they found the one temperate species (from the eastern Pacific) to be unrelated and returned it to Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Bean) .