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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: Priolepis: Greek, prio = to saw + Greek,lepis = scale (Ref. 45335); dawsoni: Named for C.E. Dawson, formerly of the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory Museum, Mississippi..
More on author: Greenfield.

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

Marine; reef-associated; non-migratory; depth range 0 - 70 m (Ref. 39609). Tropical

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Western Atlantic: Brazil and Trinidad and Tobago.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.6 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 39609)

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 9; Vertebrae: 26. This species is distinguished by the following characters: body with 7 dark, wide bars; caudal peduncle deep; no scales on opercle or preopercle; DVI-I,10 modally; A I,9; pectoral-fin rays 18 modally (Ref. 39609).

Maximum depth from Ref. 126840. Occurs over sandy bottom with many algae covered boulders from 9.1-10.7 m and over sand, rock and algae from tide pools at 0-1 m (Ref. 39609).

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Greenfield, D.W., 1989. Priolepis dawsoni n. sp. (Pisces: Gobiidae), a third Atlantic species of Priolepis. Copeia 1989(2):397-401. (Ref. 39609)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 March 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Priolepis dawsoni Greenfield, 1989