Oxyurichthys is a genus of fish in the subfamily Gobionellinae, commonly known as arrowfin gobies. They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans; one species is also known from the western Atlantic Ocean. Most species live in shallow waters under 10 meters deep over fine substrates such as silt.
Species
The following 22 species are recognized in the genus Oxyurichthys:
- Oxyurichthys auchenolepis <small>Bleeker, 1876</small> (scaly-nape tentacle goby)
- Oxyurichthys chinensis <small>Pezold & Larson, 2015</small>
- Oxyurichthys cornutus <small>McCulloch & Waite, 1918</small> (horned tentacle goby)
- Oxyurichthys heisei <small>Pezold, 1998</small>
- Oxyurichthys keiensis <small>(J.L.B. Smith, 1938)</small> (Kei goby)
- Oxyurichthys limophilus <small>Pezold & Larson, 2015</small>
- Oxyurichthys lonchotus <small>(O. P. Jenkins, 1903)</small> (speartail mudgoby)
- Oxyurichthys longicauda <small>(Steindachner, 1893)</small>
- Oxyurichthys microlepis <small>(Bleeker, 1849)</small> (maned goby)
- Oxyurichthys notonema <small>(M. C. W. Weber, 1909)</small> (threadfin mudgoby)
- Oxyurichthys nuchalis <small>(Barnard, 1927)</small>
- Oxyurichthys omanensis <small>Zarei, Al Jufaili and Esmaeili, 2022</small>
- Oxyurichthys ophthalmonema <small>(Bleeker, 1856)</small> (eyebrow goby)
- Oxyurichthys papuensis <small>(Valenciennes, 1837)</small> (frogface goby)
- Oxyurichthys paulae <small>Pezold, 1998</small> (jester goby)
- Oxyurichthys petersii <small>(Klunzinger, 1871)</small>
- Oxyurichthys rapa <small>Pezold & Larson, 2015</small>
- Oxyurichthys saru <small>Tomiyama, 1936</small>
- Oxyurichthys stigmalophius <small>(Mead & J. E. Böhlke, 1958)</small> (spotfin goby)
- Oxyurichthys takagi <small>Pezold, 1998</small>
- Oxyurichthys tentacularis <small>(Valenciennes, 1837)</small>
- Oxyurichthys zeta <small>Pezold & Larson, 2015</small>
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