Pomatoschistus minutus ( Pallas, 1770 )
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Pomatoschistus minutus ( Pallas, 1770) View in CoL ( Fig. 67 View FIGURE 67 )—Sand Goby
Gobius minutus Pallas, 1770: 4 View in CoL ; type locality: Belgian Sea.
Size. Maximum size 9.5 cm total length (Miller 1986).
Morphology. D VI (VI–VII) + I,10–12;A I,9–12; P 18–21 (Miller 1986). Medium-sized goby with subcylindrical body, laterally compressed towards caudal fin, head slightly depressed and moderately large. Snout moderately large and pointed. Eyes dorsolateral, interorbital space quite narrow. Caudal peduncle long and slender, clearly lower than body depth. Dorsal fins of similar height, the first dorsal fin with more or less rounded margin and no elongated spines. Caudal fin rounded. Scales present on body and on predorsal area at least posteriorly, usually visible on photographs at least dorsally.
Live coloration. Background color pale with irregular reticulation and light brown, white or gray spots. Usually light colored with no recognizable pattern ( Fig. 67a View FIGURE 67 ), but sometimes with more contrasting markings: 7, often illdefined whitish dorsal saddles, the first, narrower and often fainter than the others, on nape above pectoral-fin base, 2 below first dorsal-fin, 2 below second dorsal fin, 2 on caudal peduncle ( Fig. 67 View FIGURE 67 ); variable number of faint brown spots and vertical lines along midline, with one horizontal darker horizontal T-shaped blotch on caudal-fin base. One suborbital dark bar, often obvious, between eye and side of upper lip. No pale dot on nape behind eyes. First dorsal fin poorly pigmented, often with a blue-black spot on the distal rear corner, close to the edge, including in females ( Fig. 67b View FIGURE 67 ).
Similar species. Pomatoschistus marmoratus , P. microps , P. norvegicus .
Habitat. Infralittoral and circalittoral species, on soft bottoms from less than 1–70 m depth (Miller 1986).
Geographic distribution. Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea. Recorded in the Mediterranean along the north coast from the Alboran Sea to Aegean Sea (Miller 1986; Özen et al. 2007), also common in the Black Sea (Miller 1986). In the Atlantic Ocean known from Gibraltar to Norway (Miller 1986).
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Pomatoschistus minutus ( Pallas, 1770 )
Kovačić, Marcelo, Renoult, Julien P., Pillon, Roberto, Svensen, Rudolf, Bogorodsky, Sergey V., Engin, Semih & Louisy, Patrick 2022 |
Gobius minutus
Pallas, P. S. 1770: 4 |