Xenisthmus

Xenisthmus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Xenisthmidae
Genus:	Xenisthmus Snyder, 1908
Synonyms
Luzoneleotris

Xenisthmus is the most well-known genus in the family Xenisthmidae.^[1]

It contains the following species:^[2]

• Xenisthmus africanus Smith, 1958 (the flathead wriggler or African wriggler)^[3]
• Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall, 1994^[4]
• Xenisthmus chi Gill & Hoese, 2004^[1]
• Xenisthmus clarus (Jordan & Seale, 1906)^[5]
• Xenisthmus eirospilus Gill & Hoese, 2004^[1]
• Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger, 1871) (the bull's-eye wriggler or polyzonate wriggler) is peach-coloured with a bull's-eye-like spot on its tail.
• Xenisthmus semicinctus Gill & Hoese, 2004^[1]
• Xenisthmus smithi (Menon & Talwar, 1973) (often listed as Kraemericus smithi)^[6]

References

1. Gill, Anthony C.; Hoese, Douglass F. (2004). "Three New Australian Species of the Fish Genus Xenisthmus (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. The Australian Museum. 56: 241–246. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1428. ISSN 0067-1975. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
2. Xenisthmus at Fishbase
3. Smith, J.L.B. (1958). "The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean". Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. 11: 137–163. Retrieved 26 October 2012.
4. Gill, Anthony C.; Randall, J.E. (1994). "Xenisthmus balius, a new species of fish from the Persian Gulf (Gobioidei: Xenisthmidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Biological Society of Washington. 107 (3): 445–450.
5. Jordan, D.S.; Seale, A. (1994). "he 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. 25.
6. WoRMS