Two-spotted goby
| Pomatoschistus flavescens (Fabricius, 1779) | ||||
| Family: | Gobiidae (Gobies) |
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| Order: | Gobiiformes | |||
| Class: | Teleostei | |||
| English name: | Two-spotted goby | |||
| Distribution: | Eastern Atlantic: Faeroes, Vesterålen (Norway), and western Baltic to north-west Spain, excluding south-eastern North Sea. Reported from Estonia (Ref. 33247). Mediterranean reports, from Sicily and the Adriatic, require confirmation (Ref. 13729). | |||
| Adult biology: | Suprabenthic (Ref. 92840). Found inshore in groups around over-grown structures and among Laminaria or Zostera beds. Adults feed on small crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, mysids) and chaetognaths (Ref. 4696). Eggs are about 1 mm long, pear-shaped, and adhere to seagrass or weeds; hatch in 10 days (Ref. 4696). Pelagic larvae hatch at 2.5 mm length (Ref. 35388). | |||
| Diagnosis: | At 8-9 mm length a large melanophore appears in the otocystic region. Pelvics do not appear before 9 mm. Continuous row of notochordal melanophores at 10 mm. . See also LARVAE table. | |||
| Climate Zone: | temperate; 71°N - 35°N | |||
| Main Ref: | Russell, F.S.. 1976. (Ref. 37) | |||
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| Modified by: Luna, Susan M. |
Entered by: Froese, Rainer |
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