Coryogalops
Creators: name: Kovačić, Marcelo
name: Bogorodsky, Sergey V.
name: Mal, Ahmad O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Perciformes
Gobiidae
Coryogalops

description: Key to the species of Coryogalops, adapted from Kovačić et al. (2014)
1a Pelvic fins separate........................................ C. anomolus (western Indian Ocean including Red Sea)
1b Pelvic fins united, forming pelvic disc..................................................................... 2
2a Upper margin of orbit with prominent tentacle.................................... C. bulejiensis (Oman to Pakistan)
2b No tentacle on upper margin of orbit...................................................................... 3
3a Prepectoral area scaled.................................................... C. sordidus (eastern coast of Africa)
3b Prepectoral area naked................................................................................. 4
4a Head and body mostly uniform dark brown with indistinct bars on body; a large dark blotch dorsally on pectoral-fin base......................................................................... C. bretti (Mauritius and South Africa)
4b Colour not as above.................................................................................... 5
5a A large dark maroon or black spot on basal part of first 2 or 3 membranes of first dorsal fin........................... 6
5b No black blotches or spots on membranes of first dorsal fin.................................................... 7
6a Longitudinal scale series 38–39; transverse scale rows 16; pectoral-fin rays 19; black spot larger than pupil on first dorsal fin covering first two membranes, extended downwards as brown oblique band at third membrane to base of fin............................................................................. C. monospilus (Arabian Gulf)
6b Longitudinal scale series 33–35; transverse scale rows 9; pectoral-fin rays 16–17; first dorsal fin with a nearly square, dark maroon blotch, larger than pupil, basally on second and third membranes, linked with first spine by a short dark band across the first membrane..................................................... C. pseudomonospilus (northern Red Sea)
7a Pectoral-fin rays 12–14; head and body with small scattered orange-yellow spots, those in predorsal area containing melano- phores; internal row of small white spots along ventral midline of body above anal fin and on caudal peduncle........................................................................................... C. nanus sp. nov. (Red Sea)
7b Pectoral-fin rays 15–23; coloration not as above............................................................. 8 8a Longitudinal scale series 34–46; pectoral-fin rays 19–23 (usually 21–22); free rays in pectoral fin 5–8; two broad transverse dark brown bars across nape; first dorsal fin with two oblique, moderately broad, dark bands; caudal-fin base with a dark brown arc............................................................................................ 9 8b Longitudinal scale series 26–35; pectoral-fin rays 15–19; free rays in pectoral fin 2–3; no bars across nape; no bands present in first dorsal fin, if present bands narrow; triangular dark mark may be visible on caudal-fin base...................... 10 9a Dorsal-fin rays VI + I,12–13; longitudinal scale series 38–46; eye diameter 3.6–3.8 in head length.......................................................................................... C. adamsoni (Arabian Gulf to Pakistan) 9b Dorsal-fin rays VI + I,10–11; longitudinal scale series 34–36; eye diameter 4.0– 4.1 in head length......................................................................................... C. william (Mozambique to South Africa) 10a Dorsal-fin rays VI + I,12; pelvic disc weakly emarginate; numerous scales of lower half of body covered with dark orange spots........................................................................ C. guttatus (southern Red Sea) 10b Dorsal-fin rays VI + I,10–11; pelvic disc elliptical; scales of lower half of body without dark orange spots.............. 11 11a Transverse scale rows 11; side of body with narrow midlateral stripe of alternating double white and black spots; scales ventrally on body with dark brown edge.................................. C. tessellatus (Arabian Gulf to central Oman) 11b Transverse scale rows 8–10; no midlateral stripe visible; scales ventrally on body outlined with dark orange
........................................................................... C. ocheticus (northern Red Sea)
description: Published as part of Kovačić, Marcelo, Bogorodsky, Sergey V. & Mal, Ahmad O., 2016, A new species of Coryogalops (Perciformes: Gobiidae) and the first adult record of Feia nympha from the Red Sea, pp. 341-352 in Zootaxa 4097 (3) on pages 343-344, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4097.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/256887