Overview
Family : Gobies ; Occurs generally on sand and shell bottoms .
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
spotlight goby, Twosaddle Goatfish, twoscale goby
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
長身鮈鰕虎魚, 长身鮈鰕虎鱼
Description
Habitat
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
)
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
)
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
)
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
)
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
)
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
)
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
)
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
)
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
)
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
)
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
)
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
)
- Order:
Perciformes
(
)
-
- Suborder:
Gobioidei
(
)
- Family:
Gobiidae
(
)
- Genus:
Gobiosoma
(
)
- Specific name:
longipala
- Boehlke and Robins
- Scientific name: - the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Service
- Specific name:
longipala
- Boehlke and Robins
- Genus:
Gobiosoma
(
- Family:
Gobiidae
(
- Suborder:
Gobioidei
(
- Order:
Perciformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Gobiosoma louisae Böhlke & Robins, 1968
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 28-Aug-1994
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gobiosoma
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 28 species and subspecies in this genus:
G. bosc (Naked Dartfish) · G. bosci (Shortstripe Goby) · G. ceuthoecum (Bearded Goby) · G. chiquita (Orangesided Goby) · G. crescentalis (Banded Cleaning Goby) · G. etheostoma (Scaly Boy) · G. evelynae (Frecklefin Goby) · G. fasciatum (Black Shrimp-Goby) · G. genie (Genie's Cleaning Goby) · G. ginsburgi (Seaboard Goby) · G. grosvenori (Rockcut Goby?172 Names of Fishes) · G. histrio (Slow Goby) · G. homochroma (Plain Goby) · Elacatinus lori (Barsnout Goby) · G. ios (Arrow Goby) · G. longipala (Twosaddle Goatfish) · G. longum (Atlantic Shrimp Goby) · G. macrodon (Tiger Goby) · G. multifasciatum (Greenbanded Goby) · G. nudum (Knobchin Goby) · G. oceanops (Semiscaled Goby) · G. pantherinum (Redhead Goby) · G. paradoxum (Broadstripe Goby) · G. robustum (Code Goby) · G. spes (Vermiculated Goby) · G. spilotum (Isthmian Goby) · G. vulgare (Common Goby) · G. yucatanum (Yucatan Goby)
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Further Reading
- A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 36.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 33.
- FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 123.
- Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 279, p. 285.
- Tulane studies in zoology. 9 1961 New Orleans: Tulane University, 1953-1968. url p. 80.
Notes
Contributors
- American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United states, Canada, and Mexico Sixth Edition. Special Publication 29.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Williams, Jeffrey T. (from FishBase).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 127820
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-30069
- Fishbase Species ID: 3874
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 171794
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 111584
