Species: Gobiosoma hildebrandi, Hildebrand's goby
pores: opercle 0; preopercle 2-3
no head barbels
6 dark, wide, oblique bars, center with dark dashes
Gobiosoma hildebrandi (Ginsburg, 1939)
Hildebrand's goby
Body robust; head almost round; 1 pore between eyes; no pore over opercle; preopercle with 2-3 pores; snout blunt; narrow between eyes (<1/2 eye diameter); no head barbels; mouth oblique; upper lip separated from snout by a groove along its top edge; no teeth on roof of mouth; upper and lower jaws with 3-4 rows of teeth, outer and inner enlarged; gill membranes broadly joined to body under throat, with 5 rays; dorsal fin VII (1st 2 elongate in male) + I, 10 (10-11); length of 2nd dorsal base > distance from 2nd dorsal base to tail fin; I, 9 (8-9) anal fin rays; 17 (16-18) pectoral fin rays; pelvics fused in round disc; genital papilla broad, 2-lobed in male, notched & fringed in female; body completely scaled behind a line under of center of soft dorsal, with a triangular extension of scales forwards along midflank under pectoral to its base; scales in 25-28 longitudinal rows; 4-6 large very rough scales on base of tail fin; no lateral line.
Light brown; ~6 forward-sloping wide dark bars on body, with narrow dark bars in between, centers of bars with series of longitudinal dashes along midside; head with a dark bar from eye down, an oblique, forward-pointing bar behind eye, another on preopercle, and 2 more on operculum; pectoral base with short bar, a spot at top & bottom bases of pectoral fin, joined by a narrow row of pigment; fins dusky, pelvics darker in males; dorsal & anal with 1-2 stripes along entire midline; tail with faint wavy bars in female.
Size: 4.6 cm.
Habitat: fresh and brackish water, with mud/rock substrate.
Depth: 0-6 m.
Panama; also at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
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- Salinity
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- Non Marine
- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Mud
- Reef and soft bottom
- Rocks
- Sand & gravel
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Freshwater
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Insects
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- GC endemic
- Caribbean endemic
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Vulnerable
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 6
- Length Max
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- 4.6
