Tigrigobius digueti, Banded cleaner goby

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Tigrigobius digueti (Pellegrin, 1901)

Banded cleaner goby
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> Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: More on author: Pellegrin.

Issue
Junior synonym Tigrigobius inornatus is considered a valid species by some authors (see van Tassell 2011, Ref. 89468 for other works).  Please send references or more studies are needed.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

marino asociado a arrecife; rango de profundidad ? - 21 m (Ref. 87125), usually ? - 15 m (Ref. 87125). Tropical

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Eastern Central Pacific: Gulf of California to Colombia.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.2 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 11482)

Short description Morfología | Morfometría

Espinas dorsales (total): 6 - 7; Radios blandos dorsales (total): 9-11; Espinas anales 1; Radios blandos anales: 8 - 10. Distinguished by the following characters: head plump, more or less rounded, dorsoventrally compressed; mouth slightly oblique, forming an angle of about 20° to 25° with body axis; maxilla extending under middle to rear margin of eye, occasionally only to front of pupil; profile of snout steeply rounded in lateral view; interorbital narrow equal to or less than one-half eye length; gill-rakers on outer face of first arch short and slender; those on second and following arches shorter; mandibular frenum without lobes; anterior nostril a short tube, posterior nostril with a raised rim; most males with first, rarely second, first dorsal-fin spines filamentous, the first reaching to last first dorsal-fin spine base to second ray base of second dorsal fin, and occasionally to the ninth dorsal-fin ray base; scales absent (Ref. 87125).

Biología     Glosario (por ej. epibenthic)

Inhabits coral and rocky reefs (Ref. 11482). Mobile-invertebrate feeder (Ref. 57615). Picks ectoparasites from other fishes.

Life cycle and mating behavior Madurez | Reproducción | Puesta | Huevos | Fecundidad | Larva

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Allen, G.R. and D.R. Robertson, 1994. Fishes of the tropical eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu. 332 p. (Ref. 11482)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


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