Species: Gobiosoma homochroma, Plain goby
Gobiosoma homochroma (Ginsburg, 1939)
Plain goby
Body robust; head rounded; snout blunt; mouth oblique; tongue round to blunt; a small barbel below each front nostril; front nostril tubular, rear with raised rim; dorsal fin VII (none filamentous) + I, 11 (10-12) rays; anal I, 10 rays; pectoral rays 19-20; pelvics fused in disc; male genital papilla slender; female genital papilla with rounded tip; body completely scaled behind level of 2nd ray of 2nd dorsal, with narrowing extension forwards to inner base of pectoral; scales large, rough; 6 large, rough (but not with long spines); scales on base of tail fin; 27 lateral scales; head scaleless.
Pale grey-brown; front half speckled with dark dots; may have faint bars on top of back.
Size: 3.2 cm.
Habitat: fresh and brackish water?
Depth: 0-5 m.
Pacific entrance to Panama Canal.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Non Marine
- Freshwater
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Freshwater
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Panamic province endemic
- All species
- Continent
- TEP endemic
- Continental TEP endemic
- Continent only
- 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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- Endangered
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 3.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 5
