Species: Tigrigobius limbaughi, Wide-banded cleaner-goby
red bars on front, brown bars at rear
head & body - thin, straight pale bars
Tigrigobius limbaughi Hoese & Reader, 2001
Widebanded Cleaning Goby
Elongate; head rounded; upper lip connected to snout at front; a pore midway between front of the two eyes; 2 pores on preopercle; no teeth on roof of mouth; tongue with blunt tip; dorsal dorsal VII (1st spine filamentous in male) + I, 10 (9-10); anal rays I, 9 (7-10); pectoral rays 20-21; pelvic fins fused in a disc; tail rounded; no scales.
Head and anterior part of body red orange grading to dark brown posteriorly; head with 3 narrow pink to whitish bars, 9-10 straight narrow white bars on body.
Size: reaches 3.4 cm.
Inhabits rocky reefs, cleans parasites from other fishes (frequently moray eels).
Depth: 5-30 m?
Central Gulf of California to central Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- 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 (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Ectoparasite cleaner
- Diet
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- Sessile worms
- Ectoparasites
- Sessile crustacea
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic
- All species
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- Continental 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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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.4
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 30
