Chameleon goby

Chameleon goby
Chameleon goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Gobioidei
Family: Gobiidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Tridentiger
Species: T. trigonocephalus
Binomial name
Tridentiger trigonocephalus
(Gill, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Tridentiger bifasciatus Steindachner, 1881
  • Tridentiger bucco Jordan & Snyder, 1901

Chameleon goby (Tridentiger trigonocephalus) is a fish of the Gobiidae family, widespread near the coasts of the Eastern Siberia, Korea, Japan, China[1]. Bottom-dwelling, brackishwater/marine species, have total length up to 11.0 cm. Registered as non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean Sea near the coasts of Israel, also in the Black Sea in the Sevastopol Bays)[2][3]. Earlier the species was mentioned as introduced species near the coasts of Australia and California[4].

References

  1. ^ Tridentiger trigonocephalus at FishBase
  2. ^ Boltachev A.R., Karpova Ye.P., Daniliuk O.N. (2009) Nakhodka novyh i redkih vidov ryb v pribrezhnov zone Kryma (Chernoye morye). J. Ichthyology, 49(3): 318-332.
  3. ^ Goren M., Gayer K., Lazarus N. (2009) First record of the Far East chameleon goby Tridentiger trigonocephalus (Gill, 1859) in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Invasions, 4(2): 413-415.
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