MatBio: FISHES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Violet Goby ¹
Gobioides broussonnetii

Frillfin Goby ²
Bathygobius soporator

Darter Goby ¹
Ctenogobius boleosoma

Marked Goby ³
Ctenogobius stigmaticus

Highfin Goby ⁴
Gobionellus oceanicus

Naked Goby ⁵
Gobiosoma bosc

Clown Goby ⁶
Microgobius gulosus

Scaled Goby
Microgobius thalassinus

Fat Sleeper ⁴
Dormitator maculatus

Edited by matbio, Jose Nunez, and Emily Rose Sharkey

Photo Credits

2. (c) sdbeazley, some rights reserved (CC BY)
3. (c) Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
4. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Fishes, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
5. (c) cyric, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), uploaded by cyric
6. Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright restrictions (public domain)

MatBio: FISHES - Matanzas Biodiversity

Violet Goby 1 Gobioides broussonnetii

Frillfin Goby 2 Bathygobius soporator

Darter Goby 1 Ctenogobius boleosoma

Marked Goby 3 Ctenogobius stigmaticus

Highfin Goby 4 Gobionellus oceanicus

Naked Goby 5 Gobiosoma bosc

Clown Goby 6 Microgobius gulosus

Scaled Goby Microgobius thalassinus

Fat Sleeper 4 Dormitator maculatus