Awaous

Awaous
Awaous ocellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Gobionellinae
Genus:	Awaous Valenciennes, 1837
Type species
Gobius ocellaris Broussonet, 1782
Synonyms
Awaous Steindachner, 1861 Chiramenu Visweswara Rao, 1971 Chonophorus Poey, 1860 Euctenogobius T. N. Gill, 1859 Platygobius Bleeker, 1874 Suiboga S. Y. Pinto, 1960 Trichopharynx J. D. Ogilby, 1898

Awaous is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, the gobies. They are native to fresh, marine and brackish waters from Africa to the Americas.

Species

There are currently 20 recognized species in this genus:^[1]

• Awaous acritosus Watson, 1994 (Roman nose goby)
• Awaous aeneofuscus (W. K. H. Peters, 1852) (Freshwater goby)
• Awaous banana (Valenciennes, 1837) (River goby)
• Awaous bustamantei (Greeff, 1882)
• Awaous commersoni (J. G. Schneider, 1801)
• Awaous flavus (Valenciennes, 1837)
• Awaous grammepomus (Bleeker, 1849) (Scribbled goby)
• Awaous guamensis (Valenciennes, 1837)
• Awaous gutum (Hamilton, 1822)
• Awaous jayakari (Boulenger, 1888)
• Awaous lateristriga (A. H. A. Duméril, 1861) (West African freshwater goby)
• Awaous litturatus (Steindachner, 1861)
• Awaous madagascariensis (Bleeker, 1867)
• Awaous melanocephalus (Bleeker, 1849) (Largesnout goby)
• Awaous motla Seth, Roy, Sura, Puvala, Mishra & Mohapatra, 2023^[2]
• Awaous ocellaris (Broussonet, 1782)
• Awaous personatus (Bleeker, 1849)
• Awaous stamineus (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1850)
• Awaous tajasica (M. H. C. Lichtenstein, 1822) (Sand fish)
• Awaous transandeanus (Günther, 1861)

Synonyms

• Awaous fluviatilis (Rao, 1971); valid as A. litturatus
• Awaous macrorhynchus (Bleeker, 1867); valid as A. aeneofuscus
• Awaous pallidus (Valenciennes, 1837); valid as A. commersoni

References

1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Awaous". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
2. Jaya Kishor Seth; Sanmitra Roy; Sameer Sura; Dilraj Puvala; Subhrendu Sekhar Mishra; Anil Mohapatra (2023). "Description of A New Species of the Genus Awaous Valenciennes, 1837 (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from the middle stretch of the Mahanadi River, Odisha, India with Comments on the Awaous Species from India". Journal of Fish Biology. doi:10.1111/jfb.15598.