Rock goby
| Gobius paganellus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||
| Family: | Gobiidae (Gobies) |
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| Order: | Gobiiformes | |||
| Class: | Teleostei | |||
| English name: | Rock goby | |||
| Distribution: | Eastern Atlantic: western Scotland to Senegal. Also known from the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Lessepsian migrant to the Red Sea (Ref. 5299). Records from Pointe Noire and vicinity might be doubtful. | |||
| Adult biology: | Predominantly marine, but may enter freshwater. Adults occur inshore in intertidal waters, under stones and in pools on sheltered rocky shores with much weed cover. Macrobenthos feeder on hard substrates (Ref. 92840), they feed on crustaceans (larger amphipods, isopods, small crabs) and polychaetes; juveniles eat harpacticoid copepods, amphipods, polychaetes and mites (Ref. 4696). Oviparous (Ref. 205). Fusiform shaped eggs are found in patches of several thousand on undersurface of stones, shells, polychaete tubes or Ciona mantles (Ref. 4696). | |||
| Diagnosis: | Up to 7 mm the head is unpigmented and there is a large melanophore in the dorsal contour of the tail which disappears afterwards; the first dorsal and the pelvic fins are not yet present. At 11 mm a large otocystic melanophore appears. As in other Gobiidae, the gas bladder appears very early,at approx. at 3.0 mm.. See also LARVAE table. | |||
| Climate Zone: | subtropical; 8 - 24°C; 60°N - 12°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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