Couch's goby
Couch's goby (Gobius couchi) is a species of goby native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean as far north as southern Great Britain and Ireland,[1] the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea where it can be found living under stones on muddy sand in inshore waters and in the intertidal zone. This species can reach a length of 7.7 centimetres (3.0 in) TL.[2] The specific name and common name both honour Jonathan Couch (1789-1870), the Cornish ichthyologist and the author of A History of the Fishes of the British Islands published between 1862 and 1867.[3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Gobius |
| Species: | G. couchi |
| Binomial name | |
| Gobius couchi P. J. Miller & El-Tawil, 1974 | |
References
- Herler, J.; Williams, J.T. & Kovacic, M. (2014). "Gobius couchi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T198659A45104510. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T198659A45104510.en.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Gobius couchi" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (d-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
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