Species: Ctenogobius saepepallens, Dash goby
flank - row ~5 dark dashes
preopercular edge not dark
Ctenogobius saepepallens (Gilbert & Randall, 1968)
Dash goby
Body elongate, slightly compressed; eyes large, towards front, narrow between them; tongue emarginated to bilobed; teeth in both jaws in 2-3 rows, 2-3 large slightly recurved canines on each side of outer row near middle of lower jaw; front of roof of mouth without teeth; gill rakers short, triangular 0 + 4-5; gill membranes broadly joined to body under throat, with 5 rays; dorsal fin VI (3rd spine elongate in male) + I, 11 (10-12); length of 2nd dorsal base > distance from 2nd dorsal base to tail fin; anal fin I, 12 (11-12); pectoral fins 15-17(13-17); pelvic fins I, 5, united in a disc; scales on body rough, 31 (28-36) in lateral series; no lateral line.
Translucent; with reddish brown mottling on upper side; thin black bar under eye, which may continue through eye and across between eyes; a triangular dark blotch on operculum ringed with pale blue; edge of preoperculum not distinctly darker; mid-side with a row of 5 black streaks (last one a spot at end of tail base), sometimes with elongate black blotches as well; upper body sometimes with an irregular cross-hatch pattern of dark lines along scale edges; upper edge of tail fin and tip of 1st dorsal of male yellow.
Reaches: 5.0 cm.
Habitat: Sand bottoms; lives in snapping-shrimp burrows.
Depth: 0-45
Florida through the Caribbean.
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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 only
- Sand & gravel
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- 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
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species..
- Continent
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 45
