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Lophogobius cyprinoides (Pallas, 1770)
CRESTED GOBY
Atlantic crested-goby

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Lophogobius cyprinoides
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Lophogobius cyprinoides

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Lophogobius cyprinoides
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Lophogobius cyprinoides
Lophogobius cyprinoides
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Lophogobius cyprinoides

Lophogobius cyprinoides
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Lophogobius cyprinoides
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Overview
Main identification features
  • crest high: nape and between eyes
  • 1st dorsal fin dark + black and yellow spot
  • male: violet, 1st dorsal fin black and orange
  • mottled brown, cheeks: cream spots
Nape crest high, extends forwards to between middle of eyes; mouth at front, oblique, usually not reaching level of front of eye; margin of preopercle with indentations at each pore; cheek with 7 vertical rows of papillae; 1 pore between center of eyes and another between rear border of eyes; dorsal VI spines, 4th spine longest, seldom reaches beyond 3rd-4th ray of 2nd dorsal fin ; pectoral 16-20 (usually 18) rays, reaches past anal origin in adults; pelvics fused into disc; top of nape and crest without scales, scales on side of nape below a oblique line between rear end of crest and midway between eye & edge of preopercle.

Female - pale, upper head and body mottled with blotches of olive-brown to red-brown, cheeks and operculum covered with pale spots, several pale lines radiate behind eye, tail with wavy bars, other fins uniform; male - more extensive dark mottling, first dorsal black + orange blotches at rear, dark violet to black when breeding; juveniles with brown blotches at rear & pale stripes at front, pale blotch bordered at front by dark bar on outer 1/2 of 1st dorsal.

Size: 11 cm.

Habitat: shallow, quiet bays, inlets, estuaries mangroves, also into freshwater.

Depth: 0-6 m.

An Atlantic species known from the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal.


Attributes
Abundance: Common.
Cites: Not listed.
Climate Zone: Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo).
Depth Range Max: 6 m.
Depth Range Min: 0 m.
Diet: mobile benthic worms; mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves; 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: Estuary; Mangrove; Soft bottom (mud, sand,gravel, beach, estuary & mangrove); Soft bottom only; Freshwater.
Inshore Offshore: Inshore; Inshore Only.
IUCN Red List: Not evaluated / Listed.
Length Max: 11 cm.
Regional Endemism: Continent only; Continent; Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic; Eastern Pacific non-endemic; All species.
Residency: Vagrant.
Salinity: Brackish; Freshwater; Non Marine.
Water Column Position: Bottom; Bottom only;


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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.
  • Dawson, C.E., 1972., A redescription of Lophogobius cristulatus Ginsburg (Pisces: Gobiidae) with notes on L. cyprinoides (Pallas)., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 84:371-384.
  • 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.
  • McCosker , J. E. and Dawson, C. E., 1975., Biotic passage through the Panama Canal, with particular reference to fishes., Marine Biology, 30:343-351.
  • Pallas, P. S., 1770., Spicilegia Zoologica quibus novae imprimis et obscurae animalium species iconibus, descriptionibus atque commentariis illustrantur. Berolini, Gottl. August. Lange., Spicilegia Zool., 1:1-56.
  • Robins , C.R. , Ray , G.C. , Douglass , J. and Freund, R., 1986., A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Peterson Guide Ser. 32., Houghton Mifflin:354pp.
  • Rubinoff , R. W. and Rubinoff, I., 1968., Interoceanic colonization of a marine goby through the Panama Canal., Nature, 217:476-478.

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