Onespot Wormfish, Gunnellichthys monostigma Smith 1958
Other Names: Black-spot Worm Goby, Worm Goby
A Onespot Wormfish, Gunnellichthys monostigma, at Marsa el Mukabeila, Sinai, Egypt. Source: John E. Randall / Fishbase via EOL. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial
Summary:
A pale greyish wormfish with a small black spot on the rear of the gill cover, an iridescent blue stripe near the top of the head, and sometimes a pale yellow to yellowish-orange stripe along the side.
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Bray, D.J. 2016, Gunnellichthys monostigma in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Sep 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4184
Onespot Wormfish, Gunnellichthys monostigma Smith 1958
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Distribution |
Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, and the northern Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea, to One Tree Island, Queensland; also Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific - East Africa to the Marquesas and Society Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, and south to Australia. Individuals or pairs inhabit sandy-rubble areas in lagoons and sheltered reefs, hovering just above the bottom. |
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Feeding |
Feeds on small benthic and pelagic crustaceans. |
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Species Citation |
Gunnellichthys monostigma Smith 1958, Ichthyol. Bull, Rhodes Univ. 9: 127, fig. 2E. Type locality: Pinda, Mozambique. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2016 |
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Resources |
Onespot Wormfish, Gunnellichthys monostigma Smith 1958
References
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Smith, J.L.B. 1958. The gunnellichthid fishes with description of two new species from East Africa and of Gunnellichthys (Clarkichthys) bilineatus (Clark) 1936. Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 9: 123-129 figs 1-2
