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GBIF·2378231speciesAnimalia88 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyGobiidae
  5. ›genusScartelaos
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Giant Mudskipper

Scartelaos gigas Chu & Wu, 1963

Also calledSaltarín del fango Taiwanés (spa) · 大青彈塗魚 (zho) · 花跳 (zho) · 남방짱뚱어 (kor)

First described in: Chu, Y.-T.; Chan, C.-L.; Chen, C.-T. (1963). Ichthyofauna of the East China Sea. <em>Beijing.</em> i-xxviii + 1-642. [In Chinese.].

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

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Every page naming Scartelaos gigas in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2378231.