Species: Chriolepis minutillus, Rubble goby
Chriolepis minutillus Gilbert, 1892
Rubble goby
Body compressed; head broad, rounded; head without pores; papillae on most parts of head and nape; front nostril larger than rear nostril, both tubular;mouth slightly oblique, lower jaw slightly projecting; tongue broad, front straight; dorsal fin VII (large males with greatly elongate first two dorsal spines) + I, 10-11; I, 10 anal fin rays, pectoral 13-16 rays; pelvic fins completely separate, with branched rays; tail fin rounded; only scales present are 2-13 slightly rough, embedded scales on side of tail base, and 4 enlarged rough scales on base of caudal fin.
Brown to orange brown with blackish anal fin; base of pectoral fin dark brown; male with light spots on head; chest and belly with black dots.
Size: attains 3.2 cm.
Inhabits sand-rubble bottoms
Depth: 10-45 m.
Western 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
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef and soft bottom
- 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
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- 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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- Cortez province endemic
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- 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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- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 45
