Description

Dorsal spines (total): 6 - 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 8. Characterized by pale greyish to light brown body color with brown mottling on back; midside with horizontal row of five brown blotches or clusters of smaller spots; caudal fin with scattered iridescent green flecks and submarginal dark band; first dorsal fin spines elongate and filamentous in male; rounded caudal fin, equal or slightly longer than head; longitudinal scale series 32; predorsal scales behind eyes; fully scaled opercle; upper half of cheek scaled; depth of body 3.5-3.8 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiiformes

Family: Gobiidae

Genus: Acentrogobius

Species: Acentrogobius janthinopterus (Bleeker, 1853)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits mud bottoms of estuaries, marine lakes and occasionally in the vicinity of reefs (Ref. 90102). Common in marine lakes (Ref. 37816).

Habitat

freshwater

Conservation Status

Least Concern

Threat to Humans

Harmless