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Crested Oystergoby

Cryptocentroides gobioides

Also known as: Australian Crested Oyster Goby, Crested Mud Goby, Oyster Goby

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2021
Adult
@hydradon · Gold Coast, Australia · December 20221 / 1
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Overview

Found in very shallow oyster zones, on mud or under rocks, in estuaries, harbours, lakes, rivers and tide-pools.
Western Pacific - Australia

Reef Gobies have the largest and smallest species usually with very distinctive colouring.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Pacific
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Found in very shallow oyster zones, on mud or under rocks, in estuaries, harbours, lakes, rivers and tide-pools.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderGobiiformes
    5. familyGobiidae
    6. genusCryptocentroides
    7. speciesCryptocentroides gobioides (Ogilby, 1886)

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    More in the family

    Gobies (Gobiidae)