Species: Gobiosoma schultzi, Maracaibo goby
pores: opercle 0; preopercle 2
both sexes grey-brown + pale irregular bars
D2 I, 10: A 9; pectoral 17
Gobiosoma schultzi (Ginsburg, 1944)
Maracaibo goby
Body robust, head rounded, broader than deep; no head barbels; 1 pore between eyes; no pore over opercle; 2 preopercular pores; upper lip separated from snout by a groove along its top edge; teeth in upper jaw enlarged in outer row only, lower jaw with enlarged teeth in outer and inner row; no teeth on roof of mouth; gill membranes broadly joined to body under throat, with 5 rays; dorsal fin VII (no spines filamentous) + I, 10 (10-11); length of 2nd dorsal base > distance from 2nd dorsal base to tail fin; anal fin I, 9 (7-9); pectoral 17 (16-19), rounded; pelvic I, 5, fused into an oval disc extending 3/4 distance to anus; tail fin 14 branched rays, rounded to oval; lateral scales 23; scales on side interrupted, with an isolated small patch of scales just behind pectoral fin base and 7-14 rows on tail base, none on tail fin; no lateral line.
Usually diffusely and irregularly barred, alternating lighter and darker, irregular regions; often nearly uniformly colored, especially in larger males, bottom usually more or less pigmented, moderately or not much lighter than sides; tail uniformly pigmented or faintly cross-barred, bar at tail fin base usually more prominent.
Size: 2.7 cm.
Habitat: coastal habitats in gravel and sand also in rubble and small rocks.
Depth: 0-2 m.
Known only from Lake Maracaibo.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef and soft bottom
- Rocks
- Sand & gravel
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Freshwater
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Estuary
- 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 worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Insects
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- GC endemic
- Continent only
- All species..
- Caribbean endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 2.7
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 2
