New records of two goby species from Taiwan, northwestern Pacific Ocean (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) Author Su, Yo 0000-0002-3576-9229 International Doctoral Program of Marine Science and Technology, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan & Department and Graduate Institute of Aquaculture, National Kaohsiung University of Science Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan scott03150315@gmail.com Author Hsu, Yu-Chieh 0009-0000-1905-4656 Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan pigseric@gmail.com Author Ho, Hsuan-Ching 0000-0003-1154-601X Department and Graduate Institute of Aquaculture, National Kaohsiung University of Science Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan & Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories, Kaohsiung, Taiwan & Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia ogcoho@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2025 2025-09-16 5693 1 66 78 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5693.1.4 journal article 312767 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.1.4 b344e6fb-3e6e-40e1-9b5f-1e3c18f31aeb 1175-5326 17323465 C31F29A6-EFB5-4D5E-A0BF-8A304A5034CF

TABLE 4. Morphometric characters of Obliquogobius yamadai Shibukawa & Aonuma, 2007. Data of type specimens were retrieved from Shibukawa & Aonuma (2007). Abbreviations: A, anal-fin; D1, first dorsal-fin; D2, second dorsal-fin; C, caudal-fin; HL, head length; P, pectoral-fin; V, pelvic-fin.

	This study	Shibukawa & Aonuma (2007)
	NMMB-P 41620	All types (n=14)
SL (mm)	41.4	31.9–67.5
%SL
HL	28.4	28.3–33.5
Head depth	17.4	17.4–20.4
Head width	17.2	14.3–19.0
Body depth	19.2	17.2–21.0
Body width	15.2	10.8–15.6
Nape width	14.1	12.2–14.8
Snout length	6.0	5.8–8.2
Eye diameter	12.3	9.6–12.3
Upper-jaw length	12.3	12.3–14.2
Interorbital length	0.8	0.6–1.9
Predorsal length	35.5	35.1–39.5
Prepelvic length	30.0	29.1–32.5
Preanal length	57.0	56.1–60.9
Caudal-peduncle length	31.4	50.6–57.6
Caudal-peduncle depth	11.1	10.1–12.7
D1 base	13.4	15.5–19.7
D2 base	17.9	17.7–22.0
First D1 spine	26.1	13.0–16.8
Second D1 spine	N/A	14.6–17.5
Third D1 spine	16.2	15.9–18.7
Fourth D1 spine	N/A	13.0–18.1
D2 spine	N/A	11.3–15.0
First segmented D2 ray	N/A	14.7–19.1
Longest segmented D2 ray	25.8	14.8–28.4
A base	15.7	15.6–18.9
A spine	N/A	7.4–10.8
First segmented A ray	14.2	11.0–14.8
Longest segmented A ray	21.4	16.2–26.1
V spine	8.3	6.5–8.3
V length	23.1	21.2–25.8
First segmented V ray	10.7	8.3–12.5
Fourth segmented V ray	21.5	16.9–23.0
Fifth segmented V ray	20.6	20.5–24.8
P length	28.3	24.6–29.8
C length	38.8	26.7–38.7