Hypseleotris cyprinoides

Hypseleotris cyprinoides, the tropical carp-gudgeon or tropical bitterling-gudgeon, is a species of fish in the family Eleotridae found in fresh, brackish, and marine coastal waters from Africa through southern Asia to the Pacific Islands. This amphidromous species can reach a length of 8 cm (3.1 in).[2] It has been extirpated from the Indian Ocean island of Réunion,[1]

Hypseleotris cyprinoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Eleotridae
Genus: Hypseleotris
Species:
H. cyprinoides
Binomial name
Hypseleotris cyprinoides
(Valenciennes, 1837)
Synonyms[2]
  • Eleotris cyprinoides Valenciennes, 1837
  • Asterropteryx cyprinoides (Valenciennes, 1837)
  • Hypseleotris bipartita Herre, 1927
  • Hypseleotris dayi J. L. B. Smith, 1950
  • Hypseleotris tohizonae (Steindachner, 1880)
  • Eleotris tohizonae Steindachner, 1880

References
  1. Larson, H.; Ravelomanana, T. & Sparks, J.S. (2016). "Hypseleotris cyprinoides". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T63355A58312074. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T63355A58312074.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2018). "Hypseleotris cyprinoides" in FishBase. June 2018 version.


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