• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.297-302
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• 2007

An investigation of fish fauna was conducted based on the specimens from the Taean International Marine Park, off West Coast of Korea in 2005. They were collected by small seine net and stake net. The collected fishes were composed of 27 species belongs to 15 families and 8 orders. The dominant species were gobids of Favonigobius gymmnauchen in the sand area, Chamichthys gulosus and C. dolichognathus in the rocky area. The Korean endemic species were two species of Zoarchias uchidai and Repomucenus koreanus. But Porocottus leptosomus that described as a new species on the basis of specimens collected from this area in 2002 was not collected in this study.