Two-spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens)

Scientific name: Gobiusculus flavescens Fabricius, 1779

Two-spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens)

The Two-spotted goby (Gobiusculus flavescens) is a brackish-water fish of the family Gobiidae.

Biology

Dorsal soft rays (total): 7. Black spot on each side of the caudal peduncle. Males with a second similar spot behind each pectoral fin.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Gobiusculus flavescens
Family
Gobiidae (Gobies)
Order
Perciformes (Perch-like fish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
6.0
Environment
Marine; brackish; demersal; non-migratory; depth range 0 - ? m
Climate
Temperate
Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: Faeroes, Vester?len (Norway), and western Baltic to north-west Spain, excluding south-eastern North Sea. Reported from Estonia. Mediterranean records, from Sicily and the Adriatic, require confirmation.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries: of no interest
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (tm=1; tmax=2)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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