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Julien Renoult, license: CC BY-NC 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Gobiiformes
Family:
Gobiidae
Subfamily:
Gobionellinae
Genus:
Pomatoschistus
Species:
minutus
Common:
Sand goby
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Brackish water
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Northeast
Mediterranean and Black Sea
Pedroso, S. S., Barber, I., Svensson, O., Fonseca, P. J., Amorim, M. C. P. 2013. Courtship Sounds Advertise Species Identity and Male Quality in Sympatric Pomatoschistus spp. Gobies. PLoS ONE, 8(6).
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Blom, E.-L., Mück, I., Heubel, K., Svensson, O. 2016. Acoustic and Visual Courtship Traits in Two Sympatric Marine Gobiidae Species – Pomatoschistus microps and Pomatoschistus minutus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 99(12): 999-1007.
Lindström, K., Lugli, M. 2000. A Quantitative Analysis of the Courtship Acoustic Behaviour and Sound Patterning in Male Sand Goby, Pomatoschistus minutus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 58(4): 411-424.