Odontamblyopus

Edward O. Murdy & Koichi Shibukawa, 2003, Odontamblyopus rebecca, a new species of amblyopine goby from Vietnam with a key to known species of the genus (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae)., Zootaxa 138, pp. 1-6 : 1

Gobies of the genus Odontamblyopus (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) are given the vernacular name of eel gobies or worm gobies, which refers to their long and slender bodies.

Odontamblyopus inhabits mud bottom habitats from the West Coast of India eastward to Japan.

In their review of Odontamblyopus , Murdy and Shibukawa (2001) indicated that the genus comprised four species; they provided a key to species as well as a descriptive account of each. Recently, 37 specimens of an Odontamblyopus not fitting the key or descriptive accounts in Murdy and Shibukawa (2001) were collected from a fish market on the east side of Haiphong City, Vietnam. The objective of this paper is to describe this species as new and compare it with congeners.