Species: Evermannia panamensis, Panama goby
male: D & C yellow & black, A black
Evermannia panamensis Gilbert & Starks, 1904
Panama goby
Body slender, elongate; head long, depressed; 1 pore between eyes; papillae on cheek and gill cover; top jaw extends well past eye; dorsal fin IV (1st spine elongate in male) + I, 16 rays; anal I, 14 rays; 1 long flexible skin flap on shoulder in front of base of pectoral fin; tail fin long, pointed; scales - smooth, few, minute, imbedded, non-overlapping, on tail fin base.
Male: blue-brown; head, chest and belly heavily dotted with black; irregular dark chevrons on sides; first dorsal and inner half of second dorsal blue-grey, outer half of second dorsal yellowish; tail fin with blue-grey base, top half of fin yellowish, lower half blackish; anal fin blue-grey with a black band along the base. Female - light olive, upper head and body finely mottled with brown; lower head, chest and belly with dense dark dots; many thin dark chevrons along side of body; dorsal fin as in male; tail and anal fins dark blue-grey, with white margins.
Size: 4.5 cm.
Habitat: soft bottom tide pools.
Depth: 0-5 m.
El Salvador to Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- No Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- All species
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent
- 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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- 4.5
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
