Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Afrikaans:
Smarag-dikkop
Common Names in English:
Emerald coral goby, Emerald goby, Yellowgreen coralgoby, Yellowskin goby
Common Names in Finnish:
Smaragditokko
Common Names in Gela:
Iga pile matana
Common Names in Japanese:
Akane-darumahaze
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
黃副葉鰕虎魚, 黃身副短鰕虎, 黄副叶鰕虎鱼, 黄身副短鰕虎
Common Names in Samoan:
Mano'o-ulutu'i
Common Names in Tagalog:
Bia, Tapug
Common Names in Visayan:
Tapug
Description
Habitat
Found exclusively among branches of Seriatopora hystrix coral [1]; usually in pairs.
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -5,049 meters (0 to -16,565 feet).[2]
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
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Perciformes
()
-
- Suborder:
Gobioidei
()
- Family:
Gobiidae
()
- Genus:
Paragobiodon
()
- Bleeker, 1874
- Specific name:
xanthosomus
- Scientific name: - Paragobiodon xanthosomus (Bleeker, 1852)
- Specific name:
xanthosomus
- Genus:
Paragobiodon
(
- Family:
Gobiidae
(
- Suborder:
Gobioidei
(
- Order:
Perciformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Gobius xanthosoma Bleeker • Paragobiodon echinocephalus (Rüppell • Paragobiodon xanthosoma • Paragobiodon xanthosoma (Bleeker • Paragobiodon xanthosoma (Bleeker, 1852) • Paragobiodon xanthosomus
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Bleeker, P. Derde bijdrage tot de kennis der
ichthyologische fauna
van Celebes. Natuurkd. Tijdschr. Nederland.-Indië
3:739-782., 1852.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 25-Mar-1997
Similar Species
Members of the genus Paragobiodon
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 7 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. echinocephalus (Pricklyhead Goby) · P. echinocephalus gibbosus (Redhead Coral Goby) · P. lacunicola (Blackfin Coral Goby) · P. lacunicolus (Blackfin Coral Goby) · P. melanosomus (Black Coral Goby) · P. modestus (Yellowgreen Coralgoby) · P. xanthosomus (Yellowgreen Coralgoby)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Check-list of species of fishes known from the PhilippineArchipelago, by David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson. Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1910. url p. 172, p. 175, p. 5.
- NOAA technical report NMFS SSRF. Seattle, Wash.: National Marine Fisheries Service; url p. 28.
- Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 372.
- Review of the gobioid fishes of the Chagos Archipelago, Central Indian Ocean / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1986. url p. 53.
- The Natural history of Enewetak Atoll / edited by Dennis M. Devaney. .. [et al.]; prepared by Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy. Oak Ridge, Tenn.: U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, Ecological Research Division, c1987. url p. 309.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 17, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
- Matsuura, Keiichi (from FishBase).
- 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 02, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 164748
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-26436
- Fishbase Species ID: 7220
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 637812
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 119558
Footnotes
- Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene (1990). Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii. 506 p. [back]
- Mean = -1,247.190 meters (-4,091.831 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,554.330 based on 26 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
