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Apocryptodon madurensis (Bleeker, 1849)

Description

Distinguished by the following characteristics: five, brown, roundish blotches along the lateral midline; predorsal scales 19-27 (Ref. 5218).

Common Names

  • Madura goby , English , Australia
  • Peppered mudskipper , English , Australia
  • Kirjokitaryömijä , Finnish , Finland
  • Tabirakuchi , Japanese , Japan
  • タビラクチ , Japanese , Japan
  • 卧齿鲨 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 細點叉牙鰕虎魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 细点叉牙鰕虎鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 臥齒鯊 , Mandarin Chinese , Taiwan/Ch Taipei
  • 馬都拉叉牙鰕虎魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 马都拉叉牙鰕虎鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Bia , Tagalog , Philippines
  • Cá Bống răng xẻ , Vietnamese , Viet Nam

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Gobiiformes

    Family: Oxudercidae

    Genus: Apocryptodon

    Species: Apocryptodon madurensis (Bleeker, 1849)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Indo-West Pacific: east coast of India to the Philippines, north to Japan, south to Australia (Ref. 5218). Record from Sulaibikhat Bay, Persian Gulf (Ref. 80050) needs verification.

    • Biology

    Facultative air-breathing (Ref. 126274); Found in fresh and brackish waters (Ref. 4833). Browses on diatoms; not active at low tide, staying in burrows made by Alpheus bisincisus and others.

    Habitat

    freshwater