Lesueur's goby
Lesueurigobius suerii (Risso, 1810)
Also calledGhiozzetto tigrato (ita) · Gobie de Lesueur (fra) · Langschwänzige grundel (deu) · Tigrasti glavač (slv) · kaya baligi (tur) · Γωβιός του Σουέρ (ell)
Lesueur's goby (Lesueurigobius suerii) is a species of goby native to the Eastern Atlantic Ocean near the coasts of the Canary Islands and Morocco as well as in the Mediterranean Sea. This species occurs at depths down to 230 metres (750 ft) through most of its range, though the population in the Ionian Sea are found much deeper, at depths of from 322 to 337 metres (1,056 to 1,106 ft). This species can reach a length of 5 centimetres (2.0 in) TL. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade The specific name honours the French naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846).
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Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, eastern Atlantic: Morocco, Canary Islands. Conservation. IUCN: Global (NE); Med. (LC: 15 November 2007). Capture and threats: Unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. Low priority for conservation action.
The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status
description
Morphology. D VI + I, 13 – 14; A I, 13 – 14; P 17 – 20 (Miller 1986). Moderately small goby with laterally compressed body, head high and moderately large. Snout blunt, short. Eyes dorsolateral, high on head with top forming part of dorsal profile. Caudal peduncle deep, but lower than body depth. The first dorsal fin slightly higher than the second, spines not elongated. Caudal fin lanceolate. Predorsal area and nape naked (Miller 1986). Scales large, visible on body (Fig. 60). Live coloration. Body with a midlateral series of poorly defined dark spots; more irregular, often oblique markings along back. Background color grayish beige with light blue to reddish hue, sometimes with ill-defined yellow bars (Fig. 16). Head with 3 – 4 oblique yellow to orangish stripes over cheek, preopercle and opercle, and another slanting upper stripe on side of nape. Usually, second dorsal, caudal and anal fins with an orange outer margin and a blue to whitish submarginal band, sometimes faint. Similar species. Lesueurigobius friesii, L. suerii, Oxyurichthys petersii. Habitat. Infralittoral and circalittoral to bathyal species, known from infralittoral to 440 m on soft bottoms, mostly mud, muddy san
Identification of Mediterranean marine gobies (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) of the continental shelf from photographs of in situ individuals
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2378664.