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Trypauchen vagina (Burrowing goby)

Synonyms: Gobioides ruber; Gobius vagina; Trypauchen wakae
Language: Bengali; Japanese; Konkani; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Vietnamese

Wikipedia Abstract

Trypauchen vagina, commonly known as the burrowing goby, is a species of eel goby found in the Indo-Pacific region. It has an elongated body about 20 to 22 cm (7.9 to 8.7 in) in length. It is reddish-pink in color and possesses distinctive pouches in the upper edges of its gill covers. It lives in burrows in the silty and muddy bottoms of its marine and brackish habitats. It has reduced eyes that are entirely covered with skin and the anterior portion of its head is protected by thick flesh. Both adaptations aid it in digging its burrows.
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Infraspecies

Trypauchen wakae wakae

Attributes

Migration [1]  Amphidromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve 123722 Viet Nam  
Sunderban National Park 261613 India  

Predators

Johnius dussumieri (Sin-croaker)[2]
Otolithes cuvieri (Lesser tiger toothed croaker)[3]
Pateobatis bleekeri (Whiptail stingray)[4]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2FOOD AND FEEDING HABITS OF JOHNIEOPS SINA (CUVIER), K V Somasekharan Nair, Indian Journal of Fisheries, Vol 27, No 1 & 2 (1980), p. 24-34
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Some aspects on the biology of Himantura bleekeri (Blyth) and Amphotistius imbricatus (Schneider) from Mumbai, SADASHIV GOPAL RAJE, Indian J. Fish., 54(2) : 235-238, Apr.-Jun., 2007
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0