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Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Gobiiformes
Family:
Gobiidae
Subfamily:
Gobiinae
Genus:
Neogobius
Species:
melanostomus
Common:
Round goby
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Freshwater
Brackish water
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Northeast
Asia - Inland Waters
Europe - Inland Waters
North America - Inland Waters
Mediterranean and Black Sea
Speares, P. A. 2007. Acoustic Communication Modalities of the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus). Master's Thesis, University of Windsor.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Rollo, A., Andraso, G., Janssen, J., Higgs, D. 2007. Attraction and Localization of Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) to Conspecific Calls. Behaviour, 144(1): 1-21.
Isabella-Valenzi, L., Higgs, D. M. 2016. Development of an Acoustic Trap for Potential Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus) Management. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 42(4): 904-909.
Higgs, D. M., Humphrey, S. R. 2019. Passive Acoustic Monitoring Shows No Effect of Anthropogenic Noise on Acoustic Communication in the invasive Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus). Freshwater Biology, 65(1): 66-74.
Zaidi, A., Belanger, A., Higgs, D. 2006. A Sound Approach for Round Goby Control. Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research, 49: 199-200.
Horvatić, S., Malavasi, S., Vukić, J., Šanda, R., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Lorenzoni, M., Mustafić, P., Buj, I., Onorato, L., Ivić, L., Cavraro, F., Zanella, D. 2021. Correlation between Acoustic Divergence and Phylogenetic Distance in Soniferous European Gobiids (Gobiidae; Gobius Lineage). PLoS ONE, 16(12).
Horvatić, S., Bem, L., Malavasi, S., Marčić, Z., Buj, I., Mustafić, P., Ćaleta, M., Zanella, D. 2019. Comparative Analysis of Sound Production Between the Bighead Goby Ponticola kessleri and the Round Goby Neogobius melanostomus: Implications for Phylogeny and Systematics. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102(5): 727-739.
Meunier, B., Yavno, S., Ahmed, S., Corkum, L. D. 2009. First Documentation of Spawning and Nest Guarding in the Laboratory by the invasive Fish, the Round Goby (Neogobius melanostomus). Journal of Great Lakes Research, 35(4): 608-612.