Fries's goby

Fries's goby (Lesueurigobius friesii) is a species of goby native to the Eastern Atlantic Ocean along the coasts of Europe and northern Africa as well as the Mediterranean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. This species burrows into muddy or muddy sand substrates at depths of from 10 to 130 metres (33 to 427 ft) and is frequently found in association with the Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus. This species can reach a length of 13 centimetres (5.1 in) TL.[2] The specific name honours the Swedish zoologist Bengt Fredrik Fries (1799-1839).[3]

Fries's goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Lesueurigobius
Species:
L. friesii
Binomial name
Lesueurigobius friesii
(Malm, 1874)
Synonyms
  • Gobius friesii Malm, 1874
  • Gobius friesii friesii Malm, 1874
  • Lesueuria friesii (Malm, 1874)
  • Lesueurigobius friesii friesii (Malm, 1874)
  • Gobius gracilis Fries, 1838
  • Gobius macrolepis Scharff, 1891

References
  1. Carpenter, K.E.; Smith-Vaniz, W.F.; de Bruyne, G. & de Morais, L. (2015). "Lesueurigobius friesii". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T198665A21913448. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T198665A21913448.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Lesueurigobius friesii" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (I-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 3 September 2018.


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