Black goby
| Gobius niger Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||
| Family: | Gobiidae (Gobies) |
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| Order: | Gobiiformes | |||
| Class: | Teleostei | |||
| English name: | Black goby | |||
| Distribution: | Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea: throughout North Africa from Cape Blanc, Mauritania north and eastwards to the Suez Canal; also along the eastern Atlantic coast northwards to Trondheim (Norway) and Baltic Sea. Also known from the Black Sea (Ref. 4646). | |||
| Adult biology: | Found in estuaries, lagoons and inshore waters over sand or mud, in seagrass or on algae (Ref. 4696). Occasionally recorded in freshwater, but there are no documented records of actual occurrence in European freshwaters (Ref. 59043). Feed on crustaceans (larger amphipods, isopods, shrimps, mysids, small crabs), bivalves, gastropods, polychaetes, chironomid larvae, sometimes small fish (Ref. 4696). | |||
| Diagnosis: | One large ramified melanophore about midway on the ventral and dorsal contour. At 7-8 mm the rays ofthe second dorsal and the anal fins are developed. As in other Gobiidae, the gas bladder appears very early in the development, approx. at 3.0 mm. . See also LARVAE table. | |||
| Climate Zone: | temperate; 8 - 24°C; 66°N - 20°N | |||
| Main Ref: | Russell, F.S.. 1976. (Ref. 37) | |||
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| Checked by: Giovanardi, Otello |
Modified by: Luna, Susan M. |
Entered by: Papasissi, Christine |
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