Lesueur's goby

Lesueur's goby
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Gobiinae
Genus: Lesueurigobius
Species: L. suerii
Binomial name
Lesueurigobius suerii
(A. Risso, 1810)
Synonyms
  • Gobius suerii A. Risso, 1810
  • Gobius lunve Nardo, 1824
  • Gobius lunie Nardo, 1827

Lesueurigobius suerii, Lesueur's goby, is a species of goby native to the Eastern Atlantic Ocean near the coasts of the Canary Islands and Morocco as well as in the Mediterranean Sea. This species occurs at depths down to 230 metres (750 ft) through most of its range, though the population in the Ionian Sea are found much deeper, at depths of from 322 to 337 metres (1,056 to 1,106 ft). This species can reach a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade[1]

References

  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Lesueurigobius suerii" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
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