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Barbulifer ceuthoecus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1884)
BEARDED GOBY
Atlantic bearded-goby

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Barbulifer ceuthoecus
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Barbulifer ceuthoecus

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Barbulifer ceuthoecus
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Barbulifer ceuthoecus
Barbulifer ceuthoecus
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Barbulifer ceuthoecus
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Overview
Main identification features
  • short barbels: snout, under eye, chin
  • chocolate + black dots and 2 rows pale blotches
Head and body depressed; barbels short (<1/2 diameter of eye), 1 median barbel at snout tip; 1 barbel under eye; 14-16 barbels under chin and lower jaw; 1 lateral line pore over preoperculum; first gill slit completely open; front of tongue bilobed; VII dorsal spines, 9-11 dorsal rays; 8-10 anal rays; 16-20 pectoral rays; pelvics fused in disc; tail round; no scales.

Upper body and head greenish, greenish brown or dark brown, with 4-6 short narrow whitish bars that do not extend to mid-side, below midside another series of pale bars alternating with upper series; throat & chest red, belly behind sucker orange; underside of head pale; pectoral yellowish with brown basal bar; tail sometimes yellowish to greenish, sometimes orange basally, and with broad central brown to green stripe that fades posteriorly.

Size: 3 cm.

Habitat: silty rocks and in macroalgae in seagrass beds.

Depth: 0-5 m.

An Atlantic species that apparently has passed through the Panama Canal and has been found in Panama Bay.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 5 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs).
Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=9; Southern limit=9; Western limit=-80; Eastern limit=-79; Latitudinal range=1; Longitudinal range=1.
Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva.
Feeding Group: Carnivore.
FishBase Habitat: Demersal.
Global Endemism: West Atlantic Introducee; TEP non-endemic; All species.
Habitat: Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Rocks; Reef (rock &/or coral); Freshwater; Estuary; Reef only.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 3 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; Continent only; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Brackish; Freshwater; Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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References
  • Böhlke , J.E and Robins, C.R., 1968., Western Atlantic seven-spined gobies, with descriptions of ten new species and a new genus, and comments on Pacific relatives., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 120(3):45-174.
  • Fischer , W. , Krup , F. , Schneider , W. , Sommer , C. , Carpenter , K. E. and Niem, V. H., 1995., Guia FAO para la Identificacion de Especies de para los fines de la Pesca. Pacifico Centro-Oriental. Volumen II. Vertebrados - Parte 1., FAO2:647-1200.
  • Hoese , D.F. and Larson, H.K., 1985., Revision of the eastern Pacific species of the genus Barbulifer (Pisces:Gobiidae)., Copeia, 1985(2):333-339.
  • Jordan , D.S. and Evermann, B.W., 1898., The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part III., Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., 47:2183-3136.
  • Jordan , D.S. and Gilbert, C.H., 1884., Descriptions of ten new species of fishes from Key West, Florida., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 7:24-32.
  • McCosker , J. E. and Dawson, C. E., 1975., Biotic passage through the Panama Canal, with particular reference to fishes., Marine Biology, 30:343-351.

Acknowledgements

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