Varicus prometheus
Varicus prometheus Fuentes, Baldwin, Robertson, Lardizábal & Tornabene, 2023
The promethean goby (Varicus prometheus) is a mesophotic species of reef goby native to the Caribbean Sea, more specifically Half Moon Bay, Roatan, which is its type locality. The first specimen of the species was a female collected among a small group of algae of the genus Halimeda.
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Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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References
- Fuentes, K. M., Baldwin, C. C., Robertson, D. R., Lardizábal, C. C., & Tornabene, L. (2023). Two new species of Varicus from Caribbean deep reefs, with comments on the related genus Pinnichthys (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup). ZooKeys, 1180: 159–180. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1180.107551
From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.