Gobiosoma bosc

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Inhabit estuaries and weedy, protected coastal waters . Young are found in the same places as adults [1].

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Gobiosoma bosc • Gobiosoma bosc (Lacepède, 1800) • Gobiosoma bosc< /i> (Lacpède • Gobiosoma bosc< /i> (Lacepède • Gobiosoma bosci • Gobiosoma bosci (Lacepède • Gobiosoma bosci (Lacépède, 1800) • Gobiosoma bosci< /i> (Lacpède • Gobiosoma bosci< /i> (Lacepède • Gobius bosc Lacepède

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Lacépède, B . G. H. Sur un nouveau genre de serpent.. Bull . Sc. Soc. Phil. Paris, 2 (46): 169, 1800.

Comment: Status from Eschmeyer[2].

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 27-Aug-2003

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

• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 108, p. 418.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1913- url p. 4.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 166, p. 189, p. 204, p. 34.

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. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Fricke, Ronald (from FishBase).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 10 providers.
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: A Biological Survey of the Waters of Woods Hole and Vacinity
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: NOAA HML Tidal Creek Database
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNPE/Coleccion Nacional de Peces
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 155028
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-16800
• Fishbase Species ID: 3870
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13750151
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 171789
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AFCQN08010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 111576

Footnotes

1. Hildebrand, S.F. and L.E. Cable (1930). Development and life history of fourteen teleosteen fishes at Beaufort, N.C. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 46:383-488. [back]
2. Eschmeyer, W.N., Editor (2003). Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2003. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2003. [back]

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