Description

Dorsal spines (total): 6 - 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 11; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 9. Characterized by pale grey overall body color; mottled brown head, broad saddle over nape region; presence of three brown saddles along base of dorsal fins, joined at midbody to form continuous midlateral stripe; 5-6 narrow brown bars on lower side; fully united pelvic fins, frenum present; relatively short pelvic fins, about 54%distance from origin of pelvic fin to origin of anal fin; rounded caudal fin; longitudinal scale series 33-36; presence of barbels on snout, tip of chin, and ventrally below lower jaw; cycloid scales; cheek and opercle without scales; deeply embedded nape scales; presence of sensory pores on head, no preopercular pores; depth of body 5.7 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiiformes

Family: Gobiidae

Genus: Gobiopsis

Species: Gobiopsis arenaria (Snyder, 1908)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Cryptic inhabitant of sand-rubble bottom next to reefs in 5-15 (Ref. 90102).

Habitat

demersal