Author David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) Alvin Seale (1871–1958)
Description
English: Gobius ornatus Ruppell
Subject: Gobiidae, Gobius
Date 1906
Source/Photographer
English: Jordan, David Starr; Seale, Alvin (1906) Fishes of Samoa : Description of the Species Found in the Archipelago, with a Provisional Check-List of the Fishes of Oceania, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, v.25, 1905, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
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The Ornate Goby, Istigobius ornatus, is a species of gobies found in fresh, brackish and marine waters of the regions along the coasts of the Indo-Pacific, Red Sea south to northern Mozambique and east to Fiji, north to southern Taiwan, south to New Caledonia.
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Istigobius
Species: Istigobius ornatus (Rüppell, 1830)
Synonyms:
Acentrogobius ornatus (Rüppell, 1830)
Ctenogobius calderae (Evermann & Seale, 1906)
Gobius calderae Evermann & Seale, 1906
Gobius ehrenbergii Valenciennes, 1837
Gobius elegans Valenciennes, 1837
Gobius interstinctus Richardson, 1844
Gobius ornatus Rüppell, 1830
Gobius periophthalmoides Bleeker, 1851
Gobius stephensoni Whitley, 1932
Gobius thurstoni Day, 1888
Gobius ventralis Valenciennes, 1837
Gobius venustulus Fowler, 1904
Istigobius elegans (Valenciennes, 1837)
Istigobius stephensoni (Whitley, 1932)
Rhinogobius calderae (Evermann & Seale, 1906)
Sicyopterus maritimus Fourmanoir, 1955