Chris Crippen, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
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The English name "naked goby" is derived from the fact that the goby has no scales.
The Goby occurs along the Atlantic coast from southern Massachusetts to Everglades City in Florida, missing in southeast Florida and the Florida Keys; along the Gulf Coast from southern Florida west to Tampica, Mexico.
The goby tolerates varying salinity levels between 0.3 o/oo and 24.7 o/oo and is often found in association with oysters, but is also found in seaweed beds, in rocky areas with sea squirts, in mangrove zones, in swamp basins and in weedy, protected coastal waters.
The goby is magically attracted by dead or injured oysters.
On the body of Gobiosoma bosc there are about nine light-coloured crossbars, generally straight and narrow stripes, the broad brownish spaces are evenly pigmented, but these spaces may be sometimes faint, sometimes evenly everywhere, either light or very darkly pigmented, or even missing altogether.
The diet consists mainly of Annelidaea annelids and small crustaceans (copepods and amphipods).
This goby species is polygamous and sexually dimorphic.
Oyster reefs are important nesting grounds for this species. Males that incubate and guard their own eggs behave cannibalistically towards the eggs of other individuals, as they seem to have the ability to distinguish their own nests or eggs from those of other individuals.
Similar species:
Generally confused with Gobiosoma robustum, Gobiosoma longipala and Gobiosoma ginsburgi. The latter two have two small modified basicaudal scales at the rear end of the caudal peduncle. In Gobiosoma robustum the vertical bars are less pronounced and in Gobiosoma bosc and not straight, the pelvic fin is longer, the dorsal and anal fin rays (12 or 10 instead of 13 and 11).
The goby was named after Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc d'Antic, a French naturalist who was a botanist, zoologist and entomologist. His official botanical author code is "Bosc", see the species name of the goby.
It is interesting to note that one exemplar of Gobiosoma bosc was found im Venezuela (North coast South America) and in 2012 seven specimens were captured in the Weser, a freshwater river near
Sandstedt, Germany,
Synonyms:
Gobiosoma bosci (Lacepède, 1800)
Gobiosoma molestum Girard, 1858
Gobius bosc Lacepède, 1800
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Jumping guard
A jumping guard prevents (nocturnal) fish from jumping out.
Wrasses, blennies, hawkfishs and gobies jump out of an unprotected tank in fright if their night rest is disturbed, unfortunately these jumpers are found dried up in the morning on carpets, glass edges or later behind the tank.
https://www.korallenriff.de/en/article/1925_5_Jump_Protection_Solutions_for_Fish_in_the_Aquarium__5_Net_Covers.html
A small night light also helps, as it provides the fish with a means of orientation in the dark!
The English name "naked goby" is derived from the fact that the goby has no scales.
The Goby occurs along the Atlantic coast from southern Massachusetts to Everglades City in Florida, missing in southeast Florida and the Florida Keys; along the Gulf Coast from southern Florida west to Tampica, Mexico.
The goby tolerates varying salinity levels between 0.3 o/oo and 24.7 o/oo and is often found in association with oysters, but is also found in seaweed beds, in rocky areas with sea squirts, in mangrove zones, in swamp basins and in weedy, protected coastal waters.
The goby is magically attracted by dead or injured oysters.
On the body of Gobiosoma bosc there are about nine light-coloured crossbars, generally straight and narrow stripes, the broad brownish spaces are evenly pigmented, but these spaces may be sometimes faint, sometimes evenly everywhere, either light or very darkly pigmented, or even missing altogether.
The diet consists mainly of Annelidaea annelids and small crustaceans (copepods and amphipods).
This goby species is polygamous and sexually dimorphic.
Oyster reefs are important nesting grounds for this species. Males that incubate and guard their own eggs behave cannibalistically towards the eggs of other individuals, as they seem to have the ability to distinguish their own nests or eggs from those of other individuals.
Similar species:
Generally confused with Gobiosoma robustum, Gobiosoma longipala and Gobiosoma ginsburgi. The latter two have two small modified basicaudal scales at the rear end of the caudal peduncle. In Gobiosoma robustum the vertical bars are less pronounced and in Gobiosoma bosc and not straight, the pelvic fin is longer, the dorsal and anal fin rays (12 or 10 instead of 13 and 11).
The goby was named after Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc d'Antic, a French naturalist who was a botanist, zoologist and entomologist. His official botanical author code is "Bosc", see the species name of the goby.
It is interesting to note that one exemplar of Gobiosoma bosc was found im Venezuela (North coast South America) and in 2012 seven specimens were captured in the Weser, a freshwater river near
Sandstedt, Germany,
Synonyms:
Gobiosoma bosci (Lacepède, 1800)
Gobiosoma molestum Girard, 1858
Gobius bosc Lacepède, 1800
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Jumping guard
A jumping guard prevents (nocturnal) fish from jumping out.
Wrasses, blennies, hawkfishs and gobies jump out of an unprotected tank in fright if their night rest is disturbed, unfortunately these jumpers are found dried up in the morning on carpets, glass edges or later behind the tank.
https://www.korallenriff.de/en/article/1925_5_Jump_Protection_Solutions_for_Fish_in_the_Aquarium__5_Net_Covers.html
A small night light also helps, as it provides the fish with a means of orientation in the dark!
