Gouania (fish)

Gouania is a genus of clingfishes endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. The members of this genus are the only vertebrates to inhabit European intertidal gravel beaches and they have developed many adaptations to survive in this extremely harsh environment.[1]

Gouania
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiesociformes
Family: Gobiesocidae
Subfamily: Gobiesocinae
Genus: Gouania
Nardo, 1833
Species

5, see text

Formerly, the genus was considered to be a monotypic genus containing the blunt-snouted clingfish, however a 2020 study described three new species and resurrected a synonym of G. willdenowi (G. pigra).[1] The genus is named for the French botanist Antoine Gouan (1733-1821).[2]

Species

There are currently 5 described species in Gouania:[1]

  • Gouania adriatica Wagner, Kovacic & Koblmuller, 2020
  • Gouania hofrichteri Wagner, Kovacic & Koblmuller, 2020
  • Gouania orientalis Wagner, Kovacic & Koblmuller, 2020
  • Gouania pigra (Nardo, 1827)
  • Gouania willdenowi (Risso, 1810)

References
  1. Wagner, Maximilian; Kovačić, Marcelo; Koblmüller, Stephan (2021). "Unravelling the taxonomy of an interstitial fish radiation: Three new species of Gouania (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and redescriptions of G. willdenowi and G. pigra". Journal of Fish Biology. 98 (1): 64–88. doi:10.1111/jfb.14558. ISSN 1095-8649. PMC 7821206. PMID 32985685.
  2. History), Jeffrey Williams (National Museum of Natural; Juergen Herler (Department of Theoretical Biology, Morphology section Faculty of Life Sciences University of Vienna); Marcelo Kovacic (Natural History Museum Rijeka, Croatia) (2014-03-13). "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: Gouania willdenowi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. doi:10.2305/iucn.uk.2014-3.rlts.t194960a49087174.en. Retrieved 2021-04-26.


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