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The character is also the subject of Bolaño's short story of the same name ("El Gusano" in Spanish, though translated as "The Grub" in Chris Andrews's translation included in Last Evenings on Earth). "Lupe" A poem of a young prostitute who loses her son; a character of the same name and background appears in The Savage Detectives. "The Front Line"
Valencienna sexguttata, the chalk goby, sixspot goby, sleeper blue dot goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.It inhabits bays or lagoons in waters of from 3 to 25 metres (9.8 to 82.0 ft) with silt or sand substrates with larger pieces of rock under which to burrow.
Although goby-like in many ways, sleeper gobies lack the pelvic fin sucker and that, together with other morphological differences, is used to distinguish the two families. The Gobiidae and Eleotridae likely share a common ancestor and they are both placed in the order Gobiiformes, along with a few other small families containing goby-like fishes.
Its common names include the blueband goby, golden-head sleeper goby, and pennant glider. [1] It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean where it can be found in outer lagoons and the seaward side of reefs. It occurs in a variety of substrates, sand, rubble, hard, at depths of from 1 to 25 metres (3.3 to 82.0 ft) (usually at ...
Valenciennea puellaris, the Orange-spotted sleeper-goby, Orange-dashed goby, or Maiden goby, Diamond Watchman goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. It inhabits lagoons and outer reefs where it occurs on sandy substrates with larger pieces of rubble to burrow under.
The Gobiiformes / ˈ ɡ oʊ b i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are an order of fish that includes the gobies and their relatives. [1] [2] The order, which was previously considered a suborder of Perciformes, is made up of about 2,211 species that are divided between seven families.
Valenciennea is a genus of small, bottom-dwelling fish in the family Gobiidae.They are found over sandy bottoms, often at coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific.The members of the genus tend to rest directly on the substrate for extended periods of time.
Valenciennea helsdingenii is a species of goby from the Indo-Pacific.It is commonly known as the twostripe goby, black-lined sleeper goby, or railway sleeper goby.It can grow up to a length of 25 cm (9.8 in) and is distinguishable by two prominent orange to black lines running longitudinally through its body.