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Click on images to enlarge. © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Gobulus hancocki © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Gobulus hancocki © Copyright Photographer/SFTEP, 2002 · 0 Gobulus hancocki 4 thumbnails  •  slide show español Overview Main identification features upper 1/3 white + dark spots , lower 2/3 dark brown tail fin base - dark crescent;fins clear dorsal fin fins separate Head noticeably flattened; head pores absent; body slender, compressed; eye small (<80% of snout length); dorsal rays VII + I, 10-11(usually 11), two fins separate; anal rays I, 9-10 (usually 10); pectoral rays 15-17 (usually 16); pelvic fins fused to form flat, plate-like structure, with a small membrane between the pelvic spines; scales entirely absent on head and body. Dark brown lower 2/3 of head and body, dark pigment reaches well above midline of body; whitish above mottled with brown spots; whitish on belly; dark crescent shaped bar on base of tail fin in most specimens; dorsal, anal and pelvic fins clear. Size: attains 2.5 cm. Inhabits sand-rubble bottoms close to reefs. Depth: 1-20 m. Central Gulf of California to Colombia, Cocos Island. Attributes Abundance: Common. Cites: Not listed. Climate Zone: Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap); Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos); Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo). Depth Range Max: 20 m. Depth Range Min: 1 m. Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs); mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves. Eastern Pacific Range: Northern limit=29; Southern limit=3; Western limit=-112; Eastern limit=-78; Latitudinal range=26; Longitudinal range=34. Egg Type: Benthic; Pelagic larva. Feeding Group: Carnivore. FishBase Habitat: Demersal. Global Endemism: Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic; East Pacific endemic; All species. Habitat: Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom); Sand & gravel; Corals; Reef and soft bottom; Reef (rock &/or coral). Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only. IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed. Length Max: 2.5 cm. Regional Endemism: Island (s); Continent; Continent + Island (s); TEP endemic; All species. Residency: Resident. Salinity: Marine; Marine Only. Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only; Names Scientific source: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Links to other sites Fishbase Catalog of Fishes Integrated Taxonomic Information System References Birdsong , R. S. , Murdy , E. O. and Pezold, F. L., 1988., A study of the vertebral column and median fin osteology in gobioid fishes with comments on gobioid relationships., Bull. Mar. Sci., 42:174-214. Findley, L.T., Hendrickx, M.E., Brusca, R.C., van der Heiden, A.M., Hastings, P.A., Torre, J., 2003., Diversidad de la Macrofauna Marina del Golfo de California, Mexico., CD-ROM versión 1.0. Projecto de la Macrofauna del Golfo .  Derechos reservados de los autores y Conservación Internacional. 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. Galván-Magaña, F., Gutiérrez-Sánchez, F., Abitia-Cárdenas, L.A., Rodríguez-Romero, J., 2000., The distribution and affinities of the shore fishes of the Baja California Sur lagoons. In Aquatic Ecosystems of Mexico: Status and Scope. Eds. M. Manuwar, S.G. Lawrence, I.F. Manuwar & D.F. Malley. Ecovision World Monograph Series., Backhuys Publishers:383-398. Ginsburg, I., 1933., Descriptions of new and imperfectly known species and genera of gobioid and pleuronectid fishes in the United States National Museum., Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 82(20):1-23. Ginsburg, I., 1938., Eight new species of gobioid fishes from the American Pacific coast., Allan Hancock Pacific Expeditions, 2(7):109-121. Hoese , D. F. and Reader, S., 2001., Revision of the eastern Pacific species of Gobulus (Perciformes: Gobiidae), with description of a new species., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49(Supplement 1):169-176. Lopez , M. I. and Bussing, W. A., 1982., Lista provisional de los peces marinos de la Costa Rica., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 30(1):5-26. Rubio, E.A., 1986., Notas sobre la ictiofauna de la Isla de Gorgona, Colombia., Boletin Ecotropica. Univ. Bog. Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 13:86-112. Thomson , D.A. , Findley , L.T. and Kerstitch, A.N., 2000., Reef fishes of the Sea of Cortez., University of Texas Press(Revised Ed.):353. Van der Heiden , A. M. and Findley, L. T., 1988., Lista de los peces marinos del sur de Sinaloa, México., Anales del Centro de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, 15:209-224. Acknowledgements Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute I thank Ashley MacDonald and John Pickering, University of Georgia, for technical support in building this page. Supported by National Biological Information Infrastructure National Science Foundation go to Discover Life's Facebook group Following modified from FishBase    Top | See original http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Gobulus&speciesname=hancocki ---> http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Gobulus&speciesname=hancocki http://192.134.151.83/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Gobulus&speciesname=hancocki ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Gobulus&speciesname=hancocki https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/Summary/speciesSummary.php?genusname=Gobulus&speciesname=hancocki ---> https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Gobulus-hancocki.html You can sponsor this page Common name (e.g. trout) contains begins with begins with ends with is Genus + Species (e.g. Gadus morhua) About this page More Info Plus d'info Mais info Languages Arabic Bahasa/Malay Bangla Chinese(Si) Chinese(Tr) Deutsch English Español Farsi Français Greek Hindi Italiano Japanese Lao Nederlands Português(Br) Português(Pt) Russian Swedish Thai Vietnamese User feedbacks Comments &   Corrections Fish Forum Guest Book Facebook Citation Uploads Attach website Upload photo Upload video Upload   references Fish Watcher Related species Species in    Gobulus Species in    Gobiidae - Classification - Gobiinae Gobiidae Gobiiformes Teleostei Chordata Animalia Gobulus hancocki Ginsburg , 1938 Sandtop goby Add your observation in Fish Watcher Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 This map was computer-generated and has not yet been reviewed. Gobulus hancocki   AquaMaps   Data sources: GBIF OBIS Upload your photos  and  videos Pictures | Google image Gobulus hancocki Picture by Robertson, R. Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes( genus , species ) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae Etymology: More on author: Ginsburg . Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology Marine; reef-associated; depth range 1 - 20 m (Ref. 11482 ). Tropical Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri Eastern Central Pacific: Gulf of California to Panama. Size / Weight / Age Maturity: L m   ?   range ? - ? cm Max length : 5.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 92840 ) Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic) Cryptic, benthic and found on sandy bottoms near rocks or corals (Ref. 92840 ). Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators Allen, G.R. and D.R. Robertson , 1994. Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 p. (Ref. 11482 ) IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435 )   Least Concern (LC)  ; Date assessed: 23 May 2007 CITES Not Evaluated CMS (Ref. 116361 ) Not Evaluated Threat to humans   Harmless Human uses FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | More information Countries FAO areas Ecosystems Occurrences Introductions Stocks Ecology Diet Food items Food consumption Ration Common names Synonyms Metabolism Predators Ecotoxicology Reproduction Maturity Spawning Spawning aggregation Fecundity Eggs Egg development Age/Size Growth Length-weight Length-length Length-frequencies Morphometrics Morphology Larvae Larval dynamics Recruitment Abundance BRUVS References Aquaculture Aquaculture profile Strains Genetics Electrophoreses Heritability Diseases Processing Nutrients Mass conversion Collaborators Pictures Stamps, Coins Misc. 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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804 ):  PD 50 = 0.5625   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00708 (0.00333 - 0.01504), b=3.09 (2.92 - 3.26), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245 ). Trophic level (Ref. 69278 ):  3.2   ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives Resilience (Ref. 120179 ):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153 ):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100). Nutrients (Ref. 124155 ):  Calcium = 213 [92, 457] mg/100g; Iron = 0.954 [0.475, 1.897] mg/100g; Protein = 17.8 [15.8, 19.6] %; Omega3 = 0.0981 [, ] g/100g; Selenium = 22.7 [9.6, 55.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 145 [38, 534] μg/100g; Zinc = 2.56 [1.61, 3.92] mg/100g (wet weight); Comments & Corrections Back to Search Random Species Back to Top Accessed through: Not available FishBase mirror site : localhost Page last modified by : mrius-barile - 20 July 2016 Fatal error : Uncaught ArgumentCountError: Too few arguments to function checkEcotox(), 1 passed in /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php on line 2304 and exactly 3 expected in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php:2579 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/summary/speciessummary.php(2304): checkEcotox() #1 {main} thrown in /var/www/html/includes/speciessummary.lib.php on line 2579 Updated: 2024-04-18 14:36:30 gmt FishBase | Search | All Living Things | Top © Designed by The Polistes Corporation