Species: Gobiosoma species C, Few-rayed goby

midside: dark dashes
C: wavy bars

Gobiosoma species C
Few-rayed goby
Head rounded; mouth oblique; snout blunt, profile steep; narrow between eyes (< ½ eye diameter); no barbells on head; a cluster of small rakers on 1st gill arch; dorsal fin VII (1st 2 spines elongate in male) + I, 10 rays; anal fin I, 9 rays; pectoral fin 17-18 rays; pelvics fused in disc; male genital papilla slender; body completely scaled behind level of origin of 2nd dorsal fin, with narrowing extension forwards to inner base of pectoral; scales large, rough, 4 very rough scales on base of tail fin, 25 lateral scales.
(Preserved fish) Light brown; sides of body with faint bars, centers of bars at midside with short black streaks; base of pectoral with spot at top & at bottom; dorsal fins with 3 dark stripes; tail with faint wavy bars; anal clear; pelvic with black stripe; breast dark in male.
Size: 3.8 cm.
Habitat: sand with algae, rubble.
Depth: 3-10 m.
Southern Mexico to Panama.

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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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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- Rocks
- 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 worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- Continent
- Mexican + Panamic provinces endemic
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- 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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- 3.8
- Depth Range Min
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- 3
- Depth Range Max
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- 10