Impostor goby
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 12. Eyes not reduced. In both sexes, the large jaw reaching posteriorly from one-half the diameter of the orbit to the end margin of the orbit. Upper part of the sides of the trunk with shoulder patch of melanophores and diagonal bars forming a V pattern. Ocelli on body and head absent. Tail elongated.: fusiform / normal.
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 0 - 2 m . Tropical Southwest Atlantic: Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, mouth of Corantijn River in Surinam, and mouths of Cayenne and the Mahury rivers in French Guiana.
🌿 Ecology
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🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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