Description

Distinguished by having the following characteristics: small; mottled brown and white barred color pattern; small barbels near the nostrils; pair of barbels under the chin; head and body without scales except for two enlarged basicaudal scales at the base of caudal fin (Ref. 92840).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiiformes

Family: Gobiidae

Genus: Gobiosoma

Species: Gobiosoma aceras (Ginsburg, 1939)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits coastal shallow environments to depths of 14 m. Found in habitats with mud or sand mixed with shell and/or rock, also in tidepools (Ref. 92840). Collected with rotenone around gorgonian covered boulders and barnacle rubble, and from scree fields which slope down to silty mud (Ref. 95098).

Habitat

demersal