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Julien Renoult, license: CC BY-NC 4.0, source: iNaturalist
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Gobiiformes
Family:
Gobiidae
Subfamily:
Gobiinae
Genus:
Gobius
Species:
ophiocephalus
Common:
Grass goby
Climates:
Temperate
Subtropical
Waters:
Brackish water
Marine
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Regions:
Mediterranean and Black Sea
Malavasi, S., Lugli, M., Torricelli, P., Mainardi, D. 2003. Alternative Mating Tactics and Acoustic Behavior in the Grass Goby Zosterisessor ophiocephalus: A Behavioural Analysis of the interaction between the Parasitic and the Bourgeois Male. Journal of Fish Biology, 63(Supplement A): 253-253.
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Horvatić, S., Malavasi, S., Vukić, J., Šanda, R., Marčić, Z., Ćaleta, M., Lorenzoni, M., Mustafić, P., Buj, I., Onorato, L., Ivić, L., Cavraro, F., Zanella, D. 2021. Correlation between Acoustic Divergence and Phylogenetic Distance in Soniferous European Gobiids (Gobiidae; Gobius Lineage). PLoS ONE, 16(12).
Lugli, M. 2010. Sounds of Shallow Water Fishes Pitch within the Quiet Window of the Habitat Ambient Noise. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 196(6): 439-451.
Malavasi, S., Torricelli, P., Lugli, M., Pranovi, F., Mainardi, D. 2003. Male Courtship Sounds in a Teleost with Alternative Reproductive Tactics, the Grass Goby, Zosterisessor ophiocephalus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 66(3): 231-236.