Gouania adriatica, Adriatic blunt-snouted clingfish

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Gouania adriatica Wagner, Kovačić & Koblmüller, 2020

Adriatic blunt-snouted clingfish
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiesociformes (Clingfishes) > Gobiesocidae (Clingfishes and singleslits) > Lepadogastrinae
Etymology: Gouania: From Antoine Gouan, in Montpellier was the author of a "Historia piscium" (Ref. 45335);  adriatica: Named for the Adriatic Sea, the type locality of this species; an adjective in the nominative singular (Article 11.9.1.1., ICZN, 1999)..

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

Marine; demersal. Temperate

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Mediterannean Sea: Adriatic Sea, northern Ionian Sea (Island of Corfu).

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 4.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 123696)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: dorsal head profile straight line from nape above eye to upper lip tip; posterior angle of jaws extending to between a vertical line drawn through posterior edge of anterior nostril and a vertical line drawn through anterior edge of eye; upper and rounded lower posterior opercular edge pointed; longitudinal infralateral and suborbital transversal rows of superficial neuromasts are placed in the well-defined deep groove; body cross-section behind pectoral fin base half oval with straight ventral side; granules on body shallow and inconspicuous; upper attachment of gill membrane opposite to 5th to 6th pectoral ray; principal caudal-fin rays 12-13; vertical eye diameter 3.4-4.3% of SL; horizontal eye diameter 3.0-3.7% of SL; head length 26.2-30.0% of SL; pectoral-fin length 8.7-11.3% of SL; prepectoral distance 25.1-28.5% of SL; ventral adhesive disc length 15.9-20.1% of SL; caudal-fin length 13.9%-16.4 of SL; low number of vertebrae 35; pharyngeal jaws with ceratobranchial 5 small, having several (about 5) small, conical teeth; nasal bones are club-shaped; eyes with star-like pigmentation around and reduced body pigmentation with no visible stripes (Ref. 123696).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Williams, Jeffrey T. | Collaborators

Wagner, M., M. Kovačic and S. Koblmüller, 2021. Unravelling the taxonomy of an interstitial fish radiation: Three new species of Gouania (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and redescriptions of G. willdenowi and G. pigra. J. Fish Biol. 98(1):64-88. (Ref. 123696)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)


CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00513 (0.00202 - 0.01305), b=3.11 (2.89 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).