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Gobies
Gobiidae
Gobies are fishes of the family Gobiidae, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. Most of them are relatively small, typically less than 10 cm (3.9 in) in length. Gobies include some of the smallest vertebrates in the world, such as Trimmatom nanus and Pandaka pygmaea, which are under 1 cm (3⁄8 in) long when fully grown. Some large gobies, such as some species of the genera Gobioides or Periophthalmodon, can...
4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1,439 known species
Gobiinae
subfamilyGobiinae
Dartfishes
subfamilyPtereleotrinae
Wormfishes
subfamilyMicrodesminae
Sand Darters
subfamilyKraemeriinae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47308.