Species: Gobulus birdsongi, Fin-joined goby
D2 I,13; A I, 13
Gobulus birdsongi Hoese & Reader, 2001
Fin-joined goby
Slender, compressed body; distinctly depressed head; head without pores; mouth small, at front, oblique, lower jaw projecting, top jaw not extending beyond eye; teeth in bands on jaws, no canines; longitudinal and vertical rows of papillae on cheeks; dorsal fin VII+ I, 13, 2 fins partly connected at the base; anal fin I, 13; pectoral fin 18 (16-18); partial low membrane between the front of the pelvic spines, fins form a flat plate; tail short, rounded; no scales.
Red-brown head and body; with a cream stripe running from snout through eye to top of tail fin base and extending as a blotch onto upper part of tail fin; head and body darker below than above cream stripe; inner half of dorsal, tail and pectoral fins dark outer halves clear; pelvics and anal clear.
Size: to 7.2 cm
Habitat: In rock crevices.
Depth: 6 m.
El Salvador to Panama.
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- Salinity
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- Freshwater
- Non Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom only
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Mangrove
- Estuary
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Freshwater
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- 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
- Pelagic larva
- Benthic
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- TEP endemic
- Panamic province endemic
- Continent only
- All species
- Continent
- Continental TEP endemic
- 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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- Critically endangered
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 7.2
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 6
