Taenioides buchanani
Species of fish
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Taenioides buchanani, the Burmese gobyeel, is a species of goby in the family Oxudercidae. It is found in the Indian Ocean along the eastern coast of India, Bangladesh and Myanmar.
| Taenioides buchanani | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Taenioides |
| Species: | T. buchanani |
| Binomial name | |
| Taenioides buchanani (Day, 1873) | |
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Description
Taenioides buchanani can reach a total length of 30.0 centimetres (11.8 in).[2]
Etymology
The species epithet is named in honour of Francis Hamilton-Buchanan (1762-1829), a Scottish physician and naturalist, who published an account of Indo-Gangetic fishes in 1822.[3]
