Gobius sp. aff. rubropunctatus Delais, 1951

Peter Wirtz, Carlos Eduardo L. Ferreira, Sergio R. Floeter, Ronald Fricke, Joao Luiz Gasparini, Tomio Iwamoto, Luiz Rocha, Claudio L. S. Sampaio & Ulrich K. Schliewen, 2007, Coastal Fishes of Sao Tome and Principe islands, Gulf of Guinea (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) - an update., Zootaxa 1523, pp. 1-48 : 18

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z01523p001

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6240702

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scientific name

Gobius sp. aff. rubropunctatus Delais, 1951
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Gobius sp. aff. rubropunctatus Delais, 1951 View in CoL View at ENA

ZSM 34187 (1 specimen), on white sand in 3 m depth, Ilhéu das Cabras, São Tomé; ZSM 34731 (2 specimens), north coast of Principe Island. SMNS 24246 (3 specimens) from Bom Bom Islet; ZSM 34729 (1 specimen) from Lagoa Azul. This species is close to G. rubropunctatus   ZBK but differs in details of the head sensory papillae pattern and possibly represents a new species. However, identification depends on inspection of typematerial of G. rubropunctatus   ZBK and G. senegambiensis   ZBK . This is a common species on soft bottoms at Príncipe and São Tomé, from about 5 m downwards. Territorial males are darker than females (Figure 19 and 20). A photograph of a male of this species is given in Wirtz (2005a) under the name Thorogobius angolanus .

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