Species: Lythrypnus lavenbergi, Lavenberg's goby
pale bars - 12 central rows dark dots
Lythrypnus lavenbergi Bussing, 1990
Lavenberg's goby
Body slender, compressed; head 32.4% SL; eye length 9.5% SL; snout shorter than eye; no crest along top of head and nape; head without pores; papillae around mouth, on cheeks and operculum and over eye; front & rear nostrils tubular; mouth oblique, reaches to under front edge of eye; each jaw with wide-spaced, curved canines (6 above, 4 below) outside a wide band of tiny, pointed teeth; tongue pointed; 8 gill rakers; dorsal fin V (1st spine filamentous) + I, 14 rays; I, 9 anal rays; pectoral 20 rays, reach to anal fin origin; pelvics I,5, fused into disc with small front border; tail fin short, round, with 17 segmented rays; body scalation not known.
Preserved fish brown; body with 10 narrow pale bars (each with a thin dark vertical line down center) between base of pectoral fin and base of tail fin; head with 2 oblique pale bars behind eye across nape, another short one between those on preopercle, 4 bars above and between eyes, 2 bars under eye, interspaces paler than bars at front, snout and lips with irregular blotches; no spots on cheek or operculum; vertical fins dusky; soft dorsal and middle of tail fin with diffuse bars, some dark dots along base of soft dorsal; paired fins with dark bases.
Size: 2.6 cm.
Habitat: rocky bottoms.
Depth: 137-146 m.
Known from a single fish collected at Cocos Island.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom only
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Sand & gravel
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- No Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Benthic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s) only
- Island (s)
- TEP endemic
- TEP oceanic island (s) endemic
- Cocos Island 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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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 2.6
- Depth Range Min
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- 137
- Depth Range Max
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- 146
