Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Eleotridae > Gobiomorus > Gobiomorus dormitor

Gobiomorus dormitor (Bigmouth Sleeper; Giant goby; Guabine)

Synonyms: Alvarius lateralis; Eleoris longiceps; Eleotris dormitatrix; Eleotris longiceps; Platycephalus dormitator
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Catadromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cordillera Volcanica Central Forest Reserve VI 150571 Costa Rica  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
La Selva Biological Station Protective Zone VI 6052 Costa Rica
Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve VI 1312618 Mexico  
Shipstern Nature Reserve IV 20453 Belize

Prey / Diet

Dorosoma petenense (Threadfin shad)[2]
Epilobocera sinuatifrons[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Megalops atlanticus (Tarpon)[3]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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
♦ 2Diet overlap between native bigmouth sleepers (Gobiomorus dormitor) and introduced predatory fishes in a Puerto Rico reservoir, N. M. Bacheler, J. W. Neal, R. L. Noble, Ecology of Freshwater Fish 2004: 13: 111–118
♦ 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.
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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