Description

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 14; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 9 - 11; Vertebrae: 27. Distinguished by having the following characteristics: distinct barbel adjacent to anterior nare; tip of snout with a pair of barbels; mental frenum produced into two prominent barbels; first dorsal fin with no greatly elongate or filamentous spines; D2 I,13-14; side of the body heavily scaled from caudal peduncle extending to or just falling short of axil of pectoral fin; cycloid scales on body; sensory head pores B', C(s), D(s), E, F, H', K', L' usually present (pore C sometimes absent); preopercular pores 3 (Ref. 95098).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gobiiformes

Family: Gobiidae

Genus: Gobiosoma

Species: Gobiosoma seminudum (Günther, 1861)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabits shallow environments to depths of 14 m. Found in habitats with mud or sand mixed with shell and/or rock (Ref. 92840); in rocky or mangrove tide pools (Ref. 95098).

Habitat

demersal