Description

Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 9; Anal soft rays: 7.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiesociformes

Family: Gobiesocidae

Genus: Gobiesox

Species: Gobiesox cephalus Lacepède, 1800

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Inhabits rivers and creeks between 25 and 580 m elevation, in currents of high velocity and feeds on fish, fish scales and aquatic insects (Ref. 36880). Occurs solitarily in streams (Ref. 11225).

Habitat

benthopelagic