Report of two euryhaline goby fishes (Family: Gobiidae) from Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh

During faunal surveys conducted in Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh, two species of gobiid fishes, namely Hemigobius hoevenii (Bleeker, 1851) and Mugilogobius tigrinus Larson, 2001, were identified as a new distributional record for these species in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Additionally, the presence of M. tigrinus in this region represents the first-ever recorded instance of this species along the eastern coastline of the Indian mainland.