Coryphopterus personatus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Genus: | Coryphopterus |
Species: | C. personatus
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Coryphopterus personatus (
D. S. Jordan &
J. C. Thompson, 1905)
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Synonyms | |
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Coryphopterus personatus, commonly referred to as the masked goby, is a marine species of goby found in the western-central Atlantic Ocean. [2]
C. personatus is a cryptobenthic species, living in caves and shaded areas near the sea floor in reef communities. Masked gobies are sequential hermaphrodites and are capable of changing sexes. [3]
This species reaches a maximum length of 4.0 cm (1.6 in). [4] This species is difficult to differentiate from the closely-related C. hyalinus. C. personatus has a dark "mask" on its face, a faint dusky stripe on the lower rear margin of the body, and a translucent patch on the center of the top of its head. C. personatus is also slightly larger than C. hyalinus, which only reaches 3 cm (1.2 in). [5]
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Coryphopterus personatus | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Genus: | Coryphopterus |
Species: | C. personatus
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Binomial name | |
Coryphopterus personatus (
D. S. Jordan &
J. C. Thompson, 1905)
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Synonyms | |
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Coryphopterus personatus, commonly referred to as the masked goby, is a marine species of goby found in the western-central Atlantic Ocean. [2]
C. personatus is a cryptobenthic species, living in caves and shaded areas near the sea floor in reef communities. Masked gobies are sequential hermaphrodites and are capable of changing sexes. [3]
This species reaches a maximum length of 4.0 cm (1.6 in). [4] This species is difficult to differentiate from the closely-related C. hyalinus. C. personatus has a dark "mask" on its face, a faint dusky stripe on the lower rear margin of the body, and a translucent patch on the center of the top of its head. C. personatus is also slightly larger than C. hyalinus, which only reaches 3 cm (1.2 in). [5]
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