Description

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiiformes

Family: Gobiidae

Genus: Gymnogobius

Species: Gymnogobius urotaenia (Hilgendorf, 1879)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

In the middle and lower reach of rivers, often in pools; there are cases in which the species spends its whole life in lakes and ponds. Euryhaline, but usually in freshwater (Ref. 37812); preferring slow-moving waters of rivers and lakes (Ref. 81467). Caught for food.

Habitat

freshwater