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Peacock Gudgeon

Tateurndina ocellicauda

Also known as: Eyespot Sleeper, Gudgeon, Peacock Goby, Peacock-eye Goby, Peacock-eye Gudgeon, Rainbow Gudgeon, Sleeper Goby

VUVulnerableIUCN Red List, 2021
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Adult
@Gramfish · Home-Aquarium, United States · July 20191 / 1
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Overview

Found in loose schools, hovering over the bottoms, of ponds, rivers, and rainforest steams.
Indo-West Pacific - Eastern Papua New Guinea

These Gobies spend their juvenile time in the sea but as adults most live in freshwater.

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
black spotlinesspots
Behaviour
hoveringschooling

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-West Pacific
  • Exact location · 1
LIVES IN

Found in loose schools, hovering over the bottoms, of ponds, rivers, and rainforest steams.

RANGE
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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderGobiiformes
    5. familyEleotridae
    6. genusTateurndina
    7. speciesTateurndina ocellicauda Nichols, 1955

    SourcesWoRMSFishBase

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