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The state of Indiana is home to 208 species [1] of fishes that inhabit its rivers, lakes, and streams that make up five watersheds.Indiana is the state with the most fish species of any state [2] north of the Ohio River and includes Great Lakes species.
Taenioides gracilis (Valenciennes, 1837) (slender eel goby) Taenioides jacksoni J. L. B. Smith, 1943 (bearded eelgoby) Taenioides kentalleni Murdy & J. E. Randall, 2002; Taenioides limicola C. L. Smith, 1964; Taenioides mordax (De Vis, 1883) Taenioides nigrimarginatus Hora, 1924 (blackfin eel goby) Taenioides purpurascens (De Vis, 1884) (purple ...
Taenioides purpurascens, the purple eelgoby, is a species of mud-dwelling bony fish native to Australia. [1] [2] References
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 ...
Amblyopinae is a subfamily of elongated mud-dwelling gobies commonly called eel gobies or worm gobies; it has been regarded as a subfamily of the family Gobiidae, while the 5th edition Fishes of the World classifies it as a subfamily of the family Oxudercidae. [1]
Goby is also used to describe some species which are not classified within the order Gobiiformes, such as the engineer goby or convict blenny Pholidichthys leucotaenia. [2] The word goby derives from the Latin gobius meaning " gudgeon ", [ 3 ] and some species of goby, especially the sleeper gobies in the family Eleotridae and some of the ...
Trypauchen vagina, commonly known as the burrowing goby, is a species of eel goby found in the Indo-Pacific region. It has an elongated body about 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) in length. It has an elongated body about 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) in length.
A small fish, only rarely longer than 5 cm (2 in), the northern tidewater goby is elongate with a blunt tail. Color is a mottled gray, brown, or olive; living fish are translucent or mostly transparent. Tidewater gobies, like many fish, exhibit countershading and tend to be mottled slightly