Vanderhorstia mertensi
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| Vanderhorstia mertensi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Vanderhorstia |
| Species: | V. mertensi |
| Binomial name | |
| Vanderhorstia mertensi Klausewitz, 1974[2] | |
Vanderhorstia mertensi, Mertens' shrimp goby or the slender shrimp goby, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Gobiidae, the gobies. This species is native to the Indo-Pacific region, as well as having colonised the Eastern Mediterranean, probably through the Suez Canal.
Vanderhorstia mertensi was first formally described in 1974 by the German ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz with its type locality given as Marsah Murach in the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt in the Gulf of Aqaba, in the northern Red Sea from a depth of 4 metres.[3] The genus Vanderhorstia belongs to the true goby subfamily Gobiinae which is in the family Gobiidae.[4]