Species: Bembrops gobioides, Goby flathead, Goby duckbill
D2: black stripes - margin & base (interrupted)
A clear
top jaw tentacle moderate
Bembrops gobioides (Goode, 1880)
Goby duckbill
Head depressed; eye large, above, close-set; lower jaw strongly projecting, often with lower teeth exposed; top jawbone with a moderate (2.8 (2.0-3.7)% SL) rear tentacle; jaw teeth simple; teeth present on center and sides of roof of mouth; gill rakers 20 (17-22); 2 diverging spines at top of operculum, a 3rd at lower corner, with an elongate flap behind it, preoperculum with 2 broad spines at its angle; two dorsal fins, VI (front spines crowded), 2nd spine not elongate in male + 17 (rarely 16 or 18); anal fin 0, 18 (17-19); pectoral fin long and wide, 27 (26-30) rays; pelvic fins I, 5, under operculum, wide between those fins; tail fin straight, with 10-11 branched rays; scales rough on head and body; lateral line arched at front; a spine at front of lateral line, a prominent keel on first few lateral line scales; lateral line 64-65 (60-70) scales; scales absent from top surface of eye.
Tan above, pale below; a series of elongate dark blotches along mid flank; first dorsal fin with 1st 2 membranes and tips of membranes around spines III-VI black; 2nd dorsal fin with black outer 1/3 and broken black base; anal fin clear; tail fin with lower and rear margins black, a large black spot on its upper base in female; pectoral fin with a dark crescent at its base.
Reaches 25 cm.
On the bottom.
Depth range: 82-825 m.
New York to Jamaica.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Mud
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bathydemersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- All species..
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC non-endemic
- Extends North of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Temperate (>35N)
- 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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- 25
- Depth Range Min
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- 82
- Depth Range Max
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- 825
