Species: Barbulifer mexicanus, Mexican bearded-goby, Saddlebanded goby
Barbulifer mexicanus Hoese & Larsen, 1985
Saddlebanded goby, Mexican bearded-goby
Body depressed; head robust, depressed; head with ~ 30 large (> eye diameter) barbels, including 1 median barbel at tip of snout; 2 large barbels under eye; 8 barbels along and behind lower jaw; front of tongue with 2 lobes; front nostril tubular, points forward, rear nostril tubular, points up; pores on head, including preopercle; gill opening small to a shallow S slit along base of pectoral; dorsal fin VII + I, 8-9; 7-8 anal rays; 18-20 pectoral rays; pelvics fused into a disc; tail round; no scales.
Tan or white, with; 4-5 thick dark bars on body, from nape to base of tail fin; narrow brown bar on nape above preopercle; dark bar on pectoral base; dark bar obliquely from eye down across operculum; fins clear.
Size: 3.5 cm.
Habitat: rocky shores.
Depth: 0-20 m?
The tip of Baja, Tres Marias Islands to central Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 20
