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Encyclopedia Britannica



GOBY

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 169 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOBY . The gobies (Gobius) are small fishes readily recognized by their ventrals (the fins on the
lower
  surface of the chest) being united into one fin, forming a suctorial disk, by which these fishes are enabled to attach themselves in every possible position to a
rock
  or other firm substances. They are essentially
coast
 -fishes,-inhabiting nearly all seas, but disappearing towards the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. Many enter, or live exclusively in, such fresh waters as are at no
great
  distance from the sea. Nearly 500 different kinds are known. The largest British species, Gobius
capito
 , occurring in the
rock
 -pools of
Cornwall
 ,
measures
  10 in. Gobius, alcocki, from brackish and fresh waters of
Lower
  Bengal, is one of the very smallest of fishes, not measuring overx6 millimetres (= 7 lines). The males are usually more brilliantly coloured than the females, and guard the eggs, which are often placed in a sort of
nest
  made of the shell of some bivalve or of the carapace of a crab, with the convexity turned upwards and
covered with sand, the eggs being stuck to the inner surface of this roof.
Close
allies
  of the gobies are the walking fish or
jumping
  fish (Periophthalmus), of which various species are found in
great
 
numbers on the mud flats at the mouths of rivers in the tropics, skipping about by means of the muscular, scaly base of their pectoral fins, with the head raised and bearing a pair of strongly projecting versatile eyes close together.


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