Species: Barbulifer pantherinus, Panther bearded-goby
Barbulifer pantherinus (Pellegrin, 1901)
Panther bearded-goby
Body depressed; head robust, depressed; underside of head with 6-12 short (less than pupil diameter) barbels; 2 short barbels under eye; no median barbel at tip of snout; 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, 10-11; 8-10 anal rays; 17-20 pectoral rays; pelvics fused into a disc; tail round; no scales.
Light tan or cream colored with numerous brown spots on side; a prominent black bar or blotch on base of pectoral fin; fins often with faint brown spotting.
Size: reaches 5.2 cm.
Inhabits rocky shores from the intertidal zone down.
Depth: intertidal to 32m.
Western and NE Gulf of California.
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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 only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- All species
- Cortez province endemic
- Continent only
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 5.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 32
