Mourning pygmygoby
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 8. This species is distinguished by the following characters: a concave bony interorbital which is less than half pupil-diameter in width; slight or no groove posterodorsal to eye; presence of scales in the midline of the predorsal region; absence of opercular scales; the fifth pelvic ray is branched once dichotomously and more than 80% the length of the fourth ray; adults with the epaxial musculature reaching anteromedially to a point in line with the posterior margin of the eye; elongated spines in first dorsal fin absent (the second spine is longest, reaching to the region of the base of the second dorsal-fin spine); scale pockets are strongly outlined by melanophores and chromatophores; with a dark, vertical bar on the base of the pectoral fin; 6 grey saddles across the dorsum .: fusiform / normal; Cross section: oval.
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; reef-associated; depth range 0 - 24 m . Tropical north to the South West Islands of Palau.
🌿 Ecology
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🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
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