Species: Ilypnus luculentus, Bright goby, Shining goby
uniformly light
shoulder: 2 skin flaps
Ilypnus luculentus Ginsburg, 1938
Bright goby, Shining goby
Body slender, compressed; ridge over eye expanded at rear; tongue tip in 2 lobes; mouth slightly oblique, top jaw reaches under middle of eye; shoulder girdle before base of pectoral fin with 2 (1-3) skin flaps; dorsal fin V (IV-VII) + I, 17-19 rays; anal fin I, 16-18 rays; pelvics form a cup, inserted under base of pectoral fin; scales very small, smooth, imbedded in skin, absent on head, nape, throat and base of pectoral.
Overall light, without blotch on gill cover.
Size: reaches 5.3 cm.
Habitat: intertidal on sand and mud bottoms.
Depth: 0-3 m.
The Gulf of California.
High Resolution Map Download
Species Data
Create Report
Export as Word File
Export as Excel File
- Salinity
-
- Brackish
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
-
- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
-
- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
-
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- Estuary
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
-
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
-
- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
-
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- No Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
-
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- No data
- Global Endemism
-
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
-
- All species
- Continent only
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Cortez province endemic
- Residency
-
- Resident
- Climate Zone
-
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
-
- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
-
- Not listed
- Length Max
-
- 5.3
- Depth Range Min
-
- 0
- Depth Range Max
-
- 3
