Species: Barbulifer ceuthoecus, Atlantic bearded-goby
Barbulifer ceuthoecus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1884)
Atlantic bearded-goby
Body depressed; head robust, flattened above; barbels short (< ½ diameter of eye), 1 median barbel at snout tip; 1 barbel under eye; 1 barbel at rear outer face of mouth; 14-16 barbels under chin and lower jaw; front of tongue with 2 lobes; front nostril tubular, points forward, rear nostril tubular, points up; pores on head, including preopercle; gill opening small to a shallow S slit along base of pectoral; gill membranes broadly joined to body under throat, with 5 rays; dorsal fin VII + I, 9-11; length of 2nd dorsal base > distance from 2nd dorsal base to tail fin; I, 7-9 anal rays; 16-20 pectoral rays; pelvics fused into a disc; tail round; no scales; no lateral line.
Greenish brown to dark brown head and body; upper body with 4-6 short narrow whitish bars that do not extend to mid-side, below midside another series of pale bars alternating with upper series; throat & chest red, belly behind sucker orange; underside of head pale; pectoral yellowish with brown basal bar; tail fin with broad dark bar at its base.
Size: 3 cm.
Habitat: silty rocks and in macroalgae in seagrass beds.
Depth: 0-5 m.
Florida to Brazil; appears to have migrated through the Panama Canal to the Pacific coast.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Freshwater
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Estuary
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- All species..
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Extends South of GC
- Also in Brazil
- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
