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Gobiodon histrio, Broad-barred goby
| Subject: | Gobiodon histrio, Broad-barred goby
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Author Allan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Riverstone_McCulloch
Description
English: Gobiodon verticalis, Alleyne and Macleay
A specimen 47 mm. long, from Green Island, near Cairns, Queensland
Subject: Gobiodon verticalis, Perciformes
Tag: Fish
Date 1919
Source/Photographer
English: McCulloch, Allan R. (1919) Some Australian Fishes of the Family Gobidae, Records of the Australian Museum, v.12, 1919, Sydney, Australia: Australian Museum
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_36139_Gobiodon_verticalis,_Alleyne_and_Macleay.jpeg
Gobiodon histrio, the Broad-barred goby, is a species of goby native to the Indian Ocean from the Red sea to the western Pacific Ocean to southern Japan, Samoa and the Great Barrier Reef. This fish produces a toxin that deters predators. When disturbed, it releases compounds that inhibit the locomotion of other fish. At high enough concentrations, the toxin causes the predator to lose equilibrium and tip over. It takes part in a mutualistic relationship with a species of coral, Acropora nasuta. When the coral is damaged by toxic Chlorodesmis algae, it produces a compound that attracts the fish. The fish eat the alga and this enhances their toxicity. Order: Perciformes, Family: Gobiidae, Genus: Gobiodon, Species: Gobiodon histrio (Valenciennes, 1837).
Synonyms:
Gobius histrio Valenciennes, 1837
Gobiodon unicolor (Castelnau, 1873)
Gobiodon verticalis Alleyne & W. J. Macleay, 1877 |
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