Gobiidae, the Glossary
Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.[1]
Table of Contents
121 relations: Algae, Amblyeleotris, Amblyopinae, Aquarium, Aral Sea, Barramundi, Bass (fish), Benthophilinae, Black goby, Black Sea, Blenniiformes, Bourgeoisie, Brackish water, Caspian Sea, Cavefish, Chlamydogobius, Cleaning station, Cod, Common goby, Convergent evolution, Coral, Coral reef, Cryptocentrus, Cyclopteridae, Damselfish, Dartfish, Demersal fish, Detritus, Dominance hierarchy, Dorsal fin, Dragonet, Dwarf pygmy goby, Egg cell, Elacatinus, Eleotridae, Estuary, Family (biology), Fin, Fish as food, Fish fin, Fishes of the World, Fishing, Flatfish, Foraging, Fresh water, Frillfin goby, Fungiidae, Genus, Georges Cuvier, Glossogobius, ... Expand index (71 more) »
- Gobiiformes
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Amblyeleotris
Amblyeleotris is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae found throughout the Indo-Pacific region.
See Gobiidae and Amblyeleotris
Amblyopinae
Amblyopinae is a subfamily of elongated mud-dwelling gobies commonly called eel gobies or worm gobies; it has been regarded as a subfamily of the family Gobiidae, while the 5th edition Fishes of the World classifies it as a subfamily of the family Oxudercidae.
Aquarium
An aquarium (aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.
Aral Sea
The Aral Sea was an endorheic lake (that is, without an outlet) lying between Kazakhstan to its north and Uzbekistan to its south, which began shrinking in the 1960s and largely dried up by the 2010s.
Barramundi
The barramundi (Lates calcarifer), Asian sea bass, or giant sea perch (also known as dangri or apahap) is a species of catadromous fish in the family Latidae of the order Perciformes.
Bass (fish)
Bass (bass) is a generic common name shared by many species of ray-finned fish from the large clade Percomorpha, mainly belonging to the orders Perciformes and Moroniformes, encompassing both freshwater and marine species.
Benthophilinae
The Benthophilinae are a subfamily of gobies endemic to the Ponto-Caspian region (including the Marmara, Black, Azov, Caspian, and Aral Seas).
See Gobiidae and Benthophilinae
Black goby
The black goby (Gobius niger) is a species of ray-finned fish found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea.
Black Sea
The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.
Blenniiformes
Blenny (from the Greek ἡ βλέννα and τό βλέννος, mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour.
See Gobiidae and Blenniiformes
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
Brackish water
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.
See Gobiidae and Brackish water
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.
Cavefish
Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats.
Chlamydogobius
Chlamydogobius is a genus of gobies from Australia.
See Gobiidae and Chlamydogobius
Cleaning station
A cleaning station is a location where aquatic life congregate to be cleaned by smaller beings.
See Gobiidae and Cleaning station
Cod
Cod (cod) is the common name for the demersal fish genus Gadus, belonging to the family Gadidae.
See Gobiidae and Cod
Common goby
The common goby (Pomatoschistus microps) is a species of ray-finned fish native to fresh and brackish waters along the Atlantic and Baltic Sea coasts of Europe and northern Africa, with a range stretching from Norway to Morocco and Mauritania.
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
See Gobiidae and Convergent evolution
Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
Cryptocentrus
Cryptocentrus, also known as Watchman gobies, and one of the genera known as shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, is a genus of gobies native to tropical marine waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
See Gobiidae and Cryptocentrus
Cyclopteridae
The Cyclopteridae are a family of marine fishes, commonly known as lumpsuckers or lumpfish, in the order Scorpaeniformes.
See Gobiidae and Cyclopteridae
Damselfish
Damselfish are those within the subfamilies Abudefdufinae, Chrominae, Lepidozyginae, Pomacentrinae, and Stegastinae within the family Pomacentridae.
Dartfish
Dartfishes are a group of fish, formerly considered to be a subfamily, Ptereleotrinae, of goby-like fishes in the family Microdesmidae of the order Gobiiformes, Authorities now consider the species in the family Microdesmidae are within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family.
Demersal fish
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).
See Gobiidae and Demersal fish
Detritus
In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material.
Dominance hierarchy
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.
See Gobiidae and Dominance hierarchy
Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.
Dragonet
Dragonets are small, percomorph, marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek kallis, "beautiful" and, "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific.
Dwarf pygmy goby
The dwarf pygmy goby or Philippine goby (Pandaka pygmaea) is a tropical species of fish in the subfamily Gobionellinae from brackish water and mangrove areas in Southeast Asia.
See Gobiidae and Dwarf pygmy goby
Egg cell
The egg cell or ovum (ova) is the female reproductive cell, or gamete, in most anisogamous organisms (organisms that reproduce sexually with a larger, female gamete and a smaller, male one).
Elacatinus
Elacatinus is a genus of small marine gobies, often known collectively as the neon gobies.
Eleotridae
Eleotridae is a family of fish commonly known as sleeper gobies, with about 34 genera and 180 species. Gobiidae and Eleotridae are Gobiiformes.
Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Gobiidae and Family (biology)
Fin
A fin is a thin component or appendage attached to a larger body or structure.
See Gobiidae and Fin
Fish as food
Many species of fish are caught by humans and consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.
Fish fin
Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.
Fishes of the World
Fishes of the World is a standard reference for the systematics of fishes.
See Gobiidae and Fishes of the World
Fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.
Flatfish
A flatfish is a member of the ray-finned demersal fish order Pleuronectiformes, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes.
Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
Fresh water
Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.
Frillfin goby
The frillfin goby (Bathygobius soporator) is a species of marine fish in the genus Bathygobius.
See Gobiidae and Frillfin goby
Fungiidae
The Fungiidae are a family of Cnidaria, commonly known as mushroom corals or plate corals.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Georges Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".
See Gobiidae and Georges Cuvier
Glossogobius
Glossogobius is a genus of gobies native to fresh, brackish and marine waters from Africa to the coasts of the western Pacific Ocean.
Gobiiformes
The Gobiiformes are an order of fish that includes the gobies and their relatives.
Gobiinae
True gobies were a subfamily, the Gobiinae, of the goby family Gobiidae, although the 5th edition of the Fishes of the World does not subdivide the Gobiidae into subfamilies. Gobiidae and Gobiinae are taxa named by Georges Cuvier.
Gobiodon histrio
Gobiodon histrio, the Broad-barred goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean from the Red Sea to the western Pacific Ocean to southern Japan, Samoa and the Great Barrier Reef.
See Gobiidae and Gobiodon histrio
Gobionellinae
The Gobionellinae are a subfamily of fish which was formerly classified in the family Gobiidae, the gobies, but the 5th Edition of Fishes of the World classifies the subfamily as part of the family Oxudercidae.
See Gobiidae and Gobionellinae
Grass goby
The grass goby (Zosterisessor ophiocephalus) is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
Great Barrier Reef
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system, composed of over 2,900 individual reefs and 900 islands stretching for over over an area of approximately.
See Gobiidae and Great Barrier Reef
Grouper
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
Haddock
The haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a saltwater ray-finned fish from the family Gadidae, the true cods.
Intertidal zone
The intertidal zone or foreshore is the area above water level at low tide and underwater at high tide; in other words, it is the part of the littoral zone within the tidal range.
See Gobiidae and Intertidal zone
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Kraemeriidae
The sand darters, were formerly considered to be a family the Kraemeriidae, but recent research has placed the nine species formerly classified under the Kraemeriidae as belonging to the family Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family. Gobiidae and Kraemeriidae are Gobiiformes.
Landmark
A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.
Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
See Gobiidae and Life expectancy
List of Latin phrases (V)
Additional references.
See Gobiidae and List of Latin phrases (V)
Lists of aquarium life
Lists of aquarium life include lists of fish, amphibians, invertebrates and plants in freshwater, brackish and marine aquariums.
See Gobiidae and Lists of aquarium life
Lutjanidae
Lutjanidae, or snappers are a family of perciform fish, mainly marine, but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in fresh water.
Lythrypnus dalli
Lythrypnus dalli, commonly known as the blue-banded goby or Catalina goby, is a species of goby.
See Gobiidae and Lythrypnus dalli
Mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.
See Gobiidae and Mangrove forest
Mesogobius batrachocephalus
Mesogobius batrachocephalus, the knout goby or toad goby, is one of the species of gobiid fish native to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov basins.
See Gobiidae and Mesogobius batrachocephalus
Microdesmidae
The Microdesmidae, the wormfishes and dartfishes, were a family of goby-like fishes in the order Gobiiformes, more recent workers have placed this taxon within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family. Gobiidae and Microdesmidae are Gobiiformes.
See Gobiidae and Microdesmidae
Monkey goby
The monkey goby (Neogobius fluviatilis) is a species of goby native to the basins of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
See Gobiidae and Morphology (biology)
Mound
A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris.
Mozambique tilapia
The Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) is an oreochromine cichlid fish native to southeastern Africa.
See Gobiidae and Mozambique tilapia
Mudskipper
Mudskippers are any of the 23 extant species of amphibious fish from the subfamily Oxudercinae of the goby family Oxudercidae. Gobiidae and Mudskipper are Gobiiformes.
New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
Offspring
In biology, offspring are the young creation of living organisms, produced either by a single organism or, in the case of sexual reproduction, two organisms.
Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.
Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
See Gobiidae and Order (biology)
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.
Oxudercidae
Oxudercidae is a family of gobies which consists of four subfamilies which were formerly classified under the family Gobiidae. Gobiidae and Oxudercidae are Gobiiformes.
Padogobius bonelli
Padogobius bonelli, the Padanian goby, is a species of true goby from the family Gobiidae native to rivers of Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland, where it is usually found in areas with gravel substrates or dense vegetation along the edges.
See Gobiidae and Padogobius bonelli
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. Gobiidae and Parasitism are Symbiosis.
Parental care
Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring.
See Gobiidae and Parental care
Pelvic fin
Pelvic fins or ventral fins are paired fins located on the ventral (belly) surface of fish, and are the lower of the only two sets of paired fins (the other being the laterally positioned pectoral fins).
Pholidichthys leucotaenia
Pholidichthys leucotaenia, commonly known as the convict blenny/goby or the engineer blenny/goby, is a marine fish from the west-central Pacific Ocean.
See Gobiidae and Pholidichthys leucotaenia
Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.
See Gobiidae and Phylogenetics
Plankton
Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).
Ponticola kessleri
Ponticola kessleri, the bighead goby or Kessler's goby, is a species of goby native to Eurasia.
See Gobiidae and Ponticola kessleri
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Ptereleotris
Ptereleotris is a genus of dartfishes found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans.
Ptereleotris evides
Ptereleotris evides, the Blackfin dartfish or scissortail goby, is a species of dartfish native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
See Gobiidae and Ptereleotris evides
Racer goby
The racer goby (Babka gymnotrachelus) is a species of goby native to fresh, sometimes brackish, waters, of the Black Sea basin.
Remora
The remora, sometimes called suckerfish or sharksucker, is any of a family (Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Carangiformes.
Reproduction
Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents.
Reproductive success
Reproductive success is an individual's production of offspring per breeding event or lifetime.
See Gobiidae and Reproductive success
Rhinogobiops
Rhinogobiops is a genus of true gobies in the family Gobiidae.
Round goby
The round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is a euryhaline bottom-dwelling species of fish of the family Gobiidae.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Salt marsh
A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.
Schindleria
Schindleria is a genus of marine fish.
Sea of Azov
The Sea of Azov is an inland shelf sea in Eastern Europe connected to the Black Sea by the narrow (about) Strait of Kerch, and sometimes regarded as a northern extension of the Black Sea.
Sea of Marmara
The Sea of Marmara, also known as the Sea of Marmora or the Marmara Sea, is a small inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey.
See Gobiidae and Sea of Marmara
Seagrass meadow
A seagrass meadow or seagrass bed is an underwater ecosystem formed by seagrasses.
See Gobiidae and Seagrass meadow
Sequential hermaphroditism
Sequential hermaphroditism (called dichogamy in botany) is one of the two types of hermaphroditism, the other type being simultaneous hermaphroditism.
See Gobiidae and Sequential hermaphroditism
Sex organ
A sex organ, also known as a reproductive organ, is a part of an organism that is involved in sexual reproduction.
Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Sicydiinae
The Sicydiinae are a small subfamily (about 118 species) of freshwater gobies, with only nine genera.
Spawn (biology)
Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.
See Gobiidae and Spawn (biology)
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Sperm
Sperm (sperm or sperms) is the male reproductive cell, or gamete, in anisogamous forms of sexual reproduction (forms in which there is a larger, female reproductive cell and a smaller, male one).
Substrate (biology)
In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives.
See Gobiidae and Substrate (biology)
Swim bladder
The swim bladder, gas bladder, fish maw, or air bladder is an internal gas-filled organ that contributes to the ability of many bony fish (but not cartilaginous fish) to control their buoyancy, and thus to stay at their current water depth without having to expend energy in swimming.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
Tadpole goby
The tadpole-gobies (Benthophilus), also called pugolovkas (which means "tadpole" in Russian), are a genus of Ponto-Caspian fish in the family Gobiidae.
Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another.
Tide pool
A tide pool or rock pool is a shallow pool of seawater that forms on the rocky intertidal shore.
Trimmatom nanus
Trimmatom nanus, the midget dwarfgoby, is a species of marine goby native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
See Gobiidae and Trimmatom nanus
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Wrasse
The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly colored. Gobiidae and wrasse are taxa named by Georges Cuvier.
See also
Gobiiformes
- Butidae
- Eleotridae
- Gobiidae
- Gobiiformes
- Goby
- Kraemeriidae
- Microdesmidae
- Milyeringidae
- Mudskipper
- Nemateleotris
- Odontobutidae
- Oxudercidae
- Rhyacichthyidae
- Thalasseleotrididae
- Trichonotus
- Xenisthmidae
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobiidae
Also known as Gobie, Gobies, Gobiid, Gobiids, Goby fish, Ma-haze.
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