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Brachygobius nunus, the Golden banded goby, [1] is a species of bumblebee goby, a small genus of gobies that takes its common name from their round bodies, big heads, and their overall yellow to golden coloration interrupted by four brown to black vertical stripes reminiscent of the striped pattern of a bumblebee.
The violet goby (Gobioides broussonnetii) is a species of goby native to marine, fresh and brackish waters near the Atlantic coast of North and South America from South Carolina in the United States of America, to northern Brazil. It prefers bays, estuaries and river mouths with muddy substrates. [2] It is often marketed as the dragon goby or ...
Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments.
Sueviota aethon, the grumpy dwarfgoby, is a species of goby endemic to the Red Sea, and can grow to 17 millimetres (0.67 in) in length. It is closely related to members of the Eviota genus , possessing many similar characteristics such as morphology , ecology , and distribution .
Grass goby for sale in a Sardinian market, Italy. The grass goby is eaten by some commercial fishes, such as the toad goby. [8] In the Sea of Azov, it is used for food by the harbour porpoise. [9] The grass goby is a commercial fish in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the Molochnyi Estuary, Tuzly Lagoons, and in the Sivash.
Sicyopterus lagocephalus, the red-tailed goby or blue stream goby, is a species of goby native to islands of the Indian Ocean from the Comoros to the Mascarene Islands to the Pacific Ocean where it reaches French Polynesia and can be found as far north as Japan.
Jeffrey's goby lives in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is a demersal fish, living at depths of 5–330 m (16–1,083 ft). [7] It is common in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland . [ 8 ] It is one of only two gobies that can live in the cold waters off southeast Iceland , the other being Lebetus scorpioides .
Oxyurichthys stigmalophius, commonly known as the spotfin goby, is a species of goby found in the western central Atlantic (Florida, Bahamas and the southern Gulf of Mexico to Suriname). This species reaches a length of 16.5 cm (6.5 in).