Species: Lythrypnus solanensis, Sola's goby
Lythrypnus solanensis Acero, 1981
Sola's goby
Body robust; head round; no crest along top of head and nape; mouth very oblique; head without pores; papillae around mouth, on cheeks and operculum and over eye; front nostril a long tube, rear nostril a raised rim; tongue round to blunt; 5-7 gill rakers; dorsal fin VI (2nd & 3rd spines filamentous in male)+ I, 12 rays; 9 anal rays; 21-22 pectoral rays; pectoral rays unbranched; pelvics fused into disc; tail fin short, round, with 17 segmented rays; scales rough, body covered, ~ 27 lateral scale rows, none on head, nape, chest and pectoral base.
Red; 12 narrow blue bars on body, and 4 on head, those bars (but not the wider interspaces) with thin dark centers; lower head with brown spots.
Size: 3.4 cm.
Habitat: probably rocky substrata.
Depth: 60-100 m?
Gorgona Island (Colombia).
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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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Continent
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent only
- Continental TEP endemic
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- IUCN Red List
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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.4
- Depth Range Min
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- 60
- Depth Range Max
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- 100
