| Pandaka | |
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| Pandaka pygmaea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobionellinae |
| Genus: | Pandaka Herre, 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Pandaka pusilla Herre, 1927
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| Synonyms | |
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Pandaka is a genus of fish in the goby subfamily, Gobionellinae, native to fresh, brackish and marine waters of Asia and the western Pacific Ocean.[1] Some species in the genus are among the smallest fish in the world;[2] the male P. pygmaea can be just 9 mm (0.35 in) in standard length at maturity.[3]
The genus name is a word for a dwarf in the a number of languages of the Philippines and refers to the small size of these fish.[4]
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
FishBasewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Mukai, T., et al. (2004). Genetic and geographical differentiation of Pandaka gobies in Japan. Ichthyological Research 51(3), 222-27.
- ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly. (Eds.) Pandaka pygmaea. FishBase. 2011.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 11 August 2018.