Tomiyamichthys is a genus of gobies found from the Red Sea through the Indian Ocean to the western Pacific Ocean.
Etymology The name of this genus honours the Japanese ichthyologist Itiro Tomiyama of the Tokyo Imperial University, who described the type species, Tomiyamichthys oni, in 1936.
Species These are the current recognized species in this genus: Tomiyamichthys alleni Iwata, Ohnishi & Hirata, 2000 (Allen's shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys dorsostigma Bogorodsky, Kovačić & J. E. Randall, 2011 Tomiyamichthys elliotensis G. R. Allen, Erdmann & Dudgeon, 2023(Lady Elliot Shrimp Goby, 2023)New fish species found in the Great Barrier Reef Phys.org October 9, 2023 accessed December 2, 2023 Tomiyamichthys emilyae Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann & Ilham Vemandra Utama, 2019Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Utama, I.V. (2019) Tomiyamichthys emilyae, a new species of shrimpgoby (Gobiidae) from North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 33, 53-64.; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3473511 Tomiyamichthys fourmanoiri (J. L. B. Smith, 1956) Tomiyamichthys gomezi G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Gomez' shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys lanceolatus (Yanagisawa, 1978) (Lanceolate shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys latruncularius (Klausewitz, 1974) (Fan shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys levisquama Hoese, Shibukawa & J. W. Johnson, 2016Hoese, D.F., Shibukawa, K. & Johnson, J.W. (2016): Description of a new species of Tomiyamichthys from Australia with a discussion of the generic name. Zootaxa, 4079 (5): 582-594. Tomiyamichthys nudus G. R. Allen & Erdmann, 2012 (Scale-less shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys oni (Tomiyama, 1936) (Monster shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys praealta (Lachner & McKinney, 1981) (Tall-fin shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys russus (Cantor, 1849) (Ocellated shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys smithi (I. S. Chen & L. S. Fang, 2003) (Smith's shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys tanyspilus J. E. Randall & I. S. Chen, 2007 (Long-spot shrimpgoby) Tomiyamichthys zonatus G. R. Allen, 2015 (Brown-band shrimpgoby)
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