Species: Bollmannia boqueronensis, White-eye goby
both Ds: 3-4 brown stripes
pelvics pale
flank: 4-5 brown blotches + pale stripe
Bollmannia boqueronensis Evermann & Marsh, 1899
White-eye goby
Body long, slender (depth 18.2-21% SL), tapering, compressed; head short; snout blunt; eyes relatively small (7.7-10% SL), high, close together; interorbital narrow, without median keel, mouth large, very oblique; teeth in 2 rows, the outer row enlarged; front of roof of mouth no teeth; gill membranes broadly joined to body under throat, with 5 rays; dorsal fin VII (none elongate) + I, 12 (11-13); length of 2nd dorsal base > distance from 2nd dorsal base to tail fin; anal fin I, 12 (11-13); pectoral rays 21 (19-23); pelvics fused to form a disc, front margin of disc scalloped; tail fin long and pointed; scales large, rough; body, top of head, and nape fully scaled, a lengthwise row of scales along lower margin of cheek; scales in lateral series 27-30; no lateral line.
Upper head and body brown; flank with 4-5 brown blotches, connected by a pale stripe from eye back to upper tail base, sometimes another pale stripe above that; iris white; no black stripe above upper lip; cheek and opercle with 4-5 brown bars; dorsal fins with 4 -5 brown stripes; first dorsal with distinct black ocellus at rear; pelvic fins usually light or slightly dusky.
Reaches 10 cm.
Depth: 14-112 m.
Habitat: Mud bottoms.
The Gulf of Mexico to Guyana.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Mud
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Soft bottom only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Continent
- All species..
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 10
- Depth Range Min
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- 14
- Depth Range Max
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- 112
