- Animals
- ›Chordates
- ›Vertebrates
- ›Ray-finned Fishes
- ›Spiny-rayed fishes
- ›Gobies, cardinalfishes and allies
- ›Gobies and allies
- ›Mudskippers and Allies
- ›Mudskippers
- ›Periophthalmodon
Pug-headed Mudskipper
Periophthalmodon freycineti
Periophthalmodon freycineti, the pug-headed mudskipper, is a species of mudskipper from the subfamily Oxudercinae of the gobiiform family Oxudercidae. It distribution extends from the Philippines through eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and northern Queensland. Its habitat is tidal creeks, mud banks and inlets where it is a predator on small fish, crabs and other invertebrates such as insects. The specific name honours the French explorer Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841), the leader of the expedition on which...
From the article Periophthalmodon freycineti on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
The specific name honours the French explorer Louis de Freycinet (1779-1841), the leader of the expedition on which the type was collected.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Periophthalmodon freycineti in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 466234.