Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Gobiidae > Gobius > Gobius nigerGobius niger (Black goby)Synonyms: Gobius boulerot; Gobius brittanicus; Gobius fuliginosus; Gobius gorgione (heterotypic); Gobius iozo; Gobius jozo; Gobius jozo albescens (heterotypic); Gobius jozo major (heterotypic); Gobius jozo minor (heterotypic); Gobius jozo nigrescens (heterotypic); Gobius jozo pontica; Gobius longiradiatus; Gobius niger hispanicus; Gobius niger jozo; Gobius niger nigerrimus; Gobius punctulatus; Gobius viridis (heterotypic) Language: Albanian; Arabic; Catalan; Croatian; Danish; Dutch; Estonian; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Italian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Maltese; Mandarin Chinese; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Serbian; Slovenian; Spanish; Swedish; Turkish The black goby (Gobius niger) is a species of ray-finned fish found in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. It inhabits estuaries, lagoons, and inshore water over seagrass and algae. It feeds on a variety of invertebrates and sometimes small fish. This species can also be found in the aquarium trade. This fish reaches a maximum length of 18 centimetres (7 in) TL. This fish's neck is scaled and both of its dorsal fins have a black spot on the front end. |
Female Maturity [1] | 9 months 22 days | Male Maturity [2] | 9 months 22 days | | Maximum Longevity [1] | 5 years |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Polar Freshwaters |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
Cardigan Bay/ Bae Ceredigion |
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236876 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Carmarthen Bay and Estuaries/ Bae Caerfyrddin ac Aberoedd |
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163340 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Drigg Coast |
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3453 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Essex Estuaries |
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114016 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Fal and Helford |
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15785 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Glannau Ynys Gybi/ Holy Island Coast |
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1147 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Karadagskiy Zapovednik Nature Zapovednik |
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13876 |
Ukraine |
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Loch Creran |
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3030 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Loch Laxford |
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3018 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Loch nam Madadh |
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5734 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Lyme Bay and Torbay |
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77215 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Margate and Long Sands |
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160406 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Morecambe Bay |
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151985 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Pembrokeshire Marine/ Sir Benfro Forol |
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341177 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Pen Llyn a`r Sarnau/ Lleyn Peninsula and the Sarnau |
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360832 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Plymouth Sound and Estuaries |
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15820 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Ruegen |
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Germany |
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Sidmouth to West Bay |
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2217 |
England, United Kingdom |
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South Wight Maritime |
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49082 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Start Point to Plymouth Sound & Eddystone |
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84204 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Sunart |
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25320 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Taynish and Knapdale Woods |
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2388 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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The Vadills |
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154 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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The Wash and North Norfolk Coast |
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266284 |
England, United Kingdom |
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Y Fenai a Bae Conwy/ Menai Strait and Conwy Bay |
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65440 |
Wales, United Kingdom |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495. ♦ 2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 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. ♦ 4Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002 ♦ 5Dietary composition and the potential of food competition between 0-group cod (Gadus morhua L.) and some other fish species in the littoral zone, Karen Fjøsne and Jakob Gjøsæter, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 53: 757–770. 1996 ♦ 6Feeding behaviour and daily ration of the spotted flounder Citharus linguatula (Osteichthyes: Pleuronectiformes) in the central Tyrrhenian Sea, PAOLO CARPENTIERI, TIZIANA CANTARELLI, FRANCESCO COLLOCA, ALESSANDRO CRISCOLI and GIANDOMENICO ARDIZZONE, Scientia Marina 74(4) December 2010, 659-667 ♦ 7Ontogenetic dietary shift and feeding strategy of Raja undulata Lacepède, 1802 (Chondrichthyes: Rajidae) on the Portuguese continental shelf, Teresa Moura, Ivone FigueIredo, Inês Farias, Bárbara Serra-Pereira, Ana Neves, Maria de Fátima Borges and Leonel Serrano Gordo, Scientia Marina 72(2) June 2008, 311-318 ♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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