GOBIIDAE

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2253

GOBIIDAE

At least 23 species occur on the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Miller in Quéro et al., 1990: 925–951) and five were recorded from Ghana by Irvine (see also tables 1, 2). Irvine included the mudskipper Periophthalmus in the Gobiidae , where it is now generally considered to belong, although it has often been placed in its own family Periophthalmidae . We consider it under the Gobiidae following Nelson (1994).