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Gobiidae Cuvier 1816
Authors/Creators
- 1. Escuela de Biología, Museo de Zoología / Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ecología Tropical (CIBET) and Centro de
- 2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, 480 Wilson Rd # 13, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA joel. t. betts @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6018 - 8995
- 3. Unidad de Gestión Técnica de Proyectos - Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales y de Cooperación Externa (ORICE / UGETEP),
- 4. Universidad Americana (UAM, Costado Noroeste Camino de Oriente, Managua, Nicaragua edgar. ecologica @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8148 - 3195
- 5. Department of Environment and Development, Zamorano Biodiversity Center. Zamorano University of Tegucigalpa, P. O. Box 93, Honduras evandenberghe @ zamorano. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7566 - 0415
- 6. Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). Chicago, Illinois, United States of America delias @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4215 - 0384 cmcmahan @ fieldmuseum. org; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2113 - 8554
Description
Family Gobiidae Cuvier 1816 (Fig. 3J). Gobies, Crested Gobies, Eel-Gobies, Frillfins, Mudsuckers; Gobios, Chupapiedras, Chaquetas, Bocones, Guasetas
Description: Body elongate, stout; up to 60 cm in length, but usually less than 10 cm; head short, broad; snout rounded; lateral line absent, but canals and pores on head presents; pelvic fins generally fused, forming a sucking disc; two separate dorsal fins, the first with 4–8 weak spines, the second with one weak spine and 9–18 rays (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine, brackish, or rarely freshwater; most tropical and subtropical areas (Nelson et al. 2016). Nine genera and seventeen species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.
Notes
Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 sec. Angulo, Betts, González-Alemán, Castañeda, Berghe, Elías, Mcmahan & Matamoros, 2023
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama´. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (acccesed 18 February 2023)