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Brachygobius
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Brachygobius is a small genus of gobies. They are popular aquarium fish where a number of species are sold as bumblebee gobies because their colours are similar to those of bumblebees.
Species
Kabili Bumblebee Goby
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyGobiidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 61
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Collections
- UMMZ, USNM, NHMUK, YPM, UF, ANSP
- Recorded in
- Cambodia, Malaysia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Brunei, Thailand, Ban Pong
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Morphology
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Ecology
- Reproduction
- In the aquarium
- References
Brachygobius is a small genus of gobies. They are popular aquarium fish where a number of species are sold as bumblebee gobies because their colours are similar to those of bumblebees.
==Morphology== Bumblebee gobies range in size from 1.5 cm to 4 cm. They are generally coloured black with pale yellow to orange bands. Males are generally slimmer than females and often have more vivid colours, typically orange rather than yellow. Females may also have smaller and rounder heads. When spawning, the colours of the males become deeper, the orange bands becoming red in the case of Brachygobius doriae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brachygobius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.