goby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊbi/
Forms: form: goby
form: gobies
Etymology: From Latin gobius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek κωβιός (kōbiós), a type of small fish, of unknown ultimate origin. See also gudgeon.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s estimated that 10,000 yellowfin gobies died … as well as hundreds of striped bass and hundreds of sturgeon,” and the bloom probably is impacting all aquatic species in the area “to some degree,” Traverso said.
ref: 2022 September 3, Taylor Romine and Jason Hanna, “An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area”, in CNN:
glosses: Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
examples: text: For acclimatization in the Barents Sea he recommends using the fish fauna of East Kamchatka and the Bering Sea, especially the Atka mackerel, the Goby Gobio gobio lepidolaemus (half scaled goby) and a species of flatfish, in the[…]
ref: 1966, Oceanology, page 321:
text: Other fish species include Barbel Barbus barbus, Goby Gobio gobio, Minnow Phoxinus phoxinus, Dace Leuciscus leuciscus, Chub Leuciscus cephalus, Ide Leuciscus idus, Nase Chondrostona nasus, Burbot Lota lota, Pike Esox lucius[…]
ref: 1980, Erik Carp, Directory of Wetlands of International Importance in the Western Palearctic, IUCN, →ISBN, page 70:
text: [...] undermonth Chondrostoma nasus, bleak Alburnus alburnus, goby Gobio gobio, pine Esox lucius, perch Perca fluviatilis, ruffe Gymnocephalus cernuus, spiny loach Cobitis taenia, stone loach Nemacheilus barbatulus, sculpin Cottus gobio, and burbot Lota lota (Pavlov et al., 1981).
ref: 1997, Journal of Ichthyology, page 463:
glosses: A gudgeon, a fish of the subfamily Gobioninae, such as Gobio gobio.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhinogobius similis
word: Amur goby
word: atomgoby
taxonomic: Gobiopsis atrata
word: black goby
taxonomic: Trypauchen vagina
word: burrowing goby
taxonomic: Bathygobius spp.
word: common goby
taxonomic: Pleurosicya micheli
word: coral goby
taxonomic: Gobiodon citrinus
word: coralgoby
word: dartgoby
word: dart goby
taxonomic: Parioglossus marginalis
word: dart-goby
word: dwarfgoby
english: Eviota, Knipowitschia, Pandaka, Trimma, Trimmatom spp.
translation: Eviota, Knipowitschia, Pandaka, Trimma, Trimmatom spp.
word: dwarf goby
taxonomic: Lythrypnus elasson
word: dwarf goby
taxonomic: Taenioides cirratus
word: eel goby
taxonomic: Tryssogobius spp.
word: fairygoby
taxonomic: Ctenogobius shufeldti
word: freshwater goby
taxonomic: Bathygobius fuscus
word: frill goby
word: fringefin goby
word: ghostgoby
taxonomic: Pleurosicya muscarum
word: ghost goby
word: glider goby
word: glidergody
word: gobyeel
word: gobylike
taxonomic: Mugilogobius spp.
word: mangrove goby
word: marble goby
word: marbled goby
word: mud goby
alt: Valenciennes limicola
word: mudgoby
taxonomic: Gobiosoma bosc
word: naked goby
taxonomic: Arenigobius leftwichi
word: oyster goby
taxonomic: Cryptocentrus spp.
word: prawn goby
word: pygmygoby
word: reefgoby
word: reef-goby
taxonomic: Priolepis spp.
word: reef goby
taxonomic: Awaous tajasica
word: river goby
english: species, Myersina pretoriusi
translation: species, Myersina pretoriusi
word: sailfin goby
taxonomic: Coryphopterus tortugae
word: sand goby
word: shrimp goby
taxonomic: Cryptocentrus spp.
word: shrimpgoby
taxonomic: Gobiosoma seminudum
word: silt goby
word: sleeper-goby
word: sleepy goby
taxonomic: Evermannichthys spongicola
word: sponge goby
taxonomic: Gorogobius stevcici
word: Stevcic's goby
word: streamgoby
word: tadpole goby
word: tiger goby
taxonomic: Gobiidae spp.
word: true goby
Related terms: mudskipper