Talk:Mudskipper

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Hey, are these fish also called mudhoppers? I was looking all over the place for these fish under the name mudhopper. If that name actually refers to this fish it should be made so that mudhopper would redirect to this page.

I took the merge notice off both pages (Goby and Mudskippers) and redirected Mudskipper to Mudskippers. bikeable (talk) 14:12, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

mudskipper can withstand levels of low oxygen


"On land, they retain water in enlarged gill chambers". ...it is FALSE: they retainr AIR in the opercular chambers

No, the preceding is false and the article is CORRECT. They retain WATER in their gill chambers. What would be the point of filling them with air, since they're sitting on a mud flat surrounded by air? They lose their water supply when feeding, by the way (since the gill chambers are connected to the mouth) and immediately run back to the water to refill. This is readily noticeable when hand-feeding a mudskipper, as you wind up with wet fingers from the water being forced out as the food item is seized. Just to make sure, I just squeezed a small one, obtaining a few drops of water and a highly disgruntled mudskipper.
I do question the conventional wisdom that the water so carried is used for an oxygen supply, however; it would seem that it would become depleted of oxygen very quickly. I suspect it may be used for moistening the skin to enhance cutaneous respiration, possibly when the fish flips or rolls to re-moisten. I have observed a captive specimen carrying more water when the humidity in its cage (kind of hard to call it an aquarium, really) is lower than normal, and less in the near-100% humidity that I usually keep it at. --Worldwalker 22:59, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I confirm the fact that mudskippers DO NOT retain water into the bucco-pharingeal cavity to breathe, but air (see Sponder D.L. & Lauder G.V., 1981 – Terrestrial Feeding in the Mudskipper Periophthalmus (Pisces: Teleostei). A Cineradiographic Analysis – Journal of Zoology, Lond., 193 (4): 517–530). The proces is called "air gulping" ("AG": Graham J.B., 1997 (ed) – Air–breathing Fishes. Evolution, Diversity and Adaptation – Academic Press, San Diego California).

Mudskippers of the genus Periophthalmus may gulp water when they feed, to help ingestion of dry food items. Species of the genus Boleophthalmus wash the collected mixture of mud into water, to sieve diatoms and other food material before ingestion. These behaviours are completely UNRELATED to breathing behaviour.

Of course, if you squeeze a mudskipper's opercula after feeding, he may puke some water...

By the way, if you put a mudskipper such as Periophthalmus sp. into a plastic bag with few cm of water, you will see that after AG he will float at the water surface, often with its belly towards the water surface, as a result of the hydrostatic pull.

PLEASE STOP GIVING INFORMATION NOT BASED ON SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTATION ON THIS PAGE

Gianluca Polgar - [1]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.103.90.51 (talk) 16:41, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Are those journal articles available anywhere to non-subscribers? Worldwalker (talk) 02:38, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

"it grows to ... 6 in (15 cm)" ... FALSE again: I never measured a P. argentilineatus larger than about 10 cm; this is probably due to frequent misidentification with the sympatric species P. kalolo.

"Gobiidae, Oxudercinae, Periophthalmini" are NOT generic or specific names and must NOT be written in italic.

Please DO correct this page: I have problems with my password.

Gianluca Polgar, www.themudskipper.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.103.90.51 (talk) 07:50, August 30, 2007 (UTC)

{{editprotected}} Yudiweb 04:01, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Mind explaining what you want changed so the admins will deal with it? Unless you say exactly what you want added/removed/changed, they'll ignore it (read the template). -Jéské (v^_^v Kacheek!) 04:05, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Just minor edit: +id id: Ikan Belacak but you can add it by your self, thx :) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yudiweb (talk • contribs) 13:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

I'm not admin, but I'll get in touch with one. -Jéské (v^_^v Kacheek!) 16:24, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Y Done - thanks, both of you! - Alison ☺ 16:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article fully protected

... for a period of time due to silly meme. Time to give it a break. Please use {{editprotected}} here if you wish to have any changes made - Alison ☺ 08:48, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

As a clarification, the offending meme is "So I herd you liek mudkipz", and that refers to a fictional Pokemon character that isn't notable enough to have its own page. 204.52.215.13 23:15, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Um... The full-prot ended a long time ago, and Alison is aware of what the meme is called - she's been issuing most of the protections. -Jéské (Blah v^_^v) 00:27, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discussion on the "Mudkip" crap the article has been getting

There is a discussion going on here about what to do about these editors. For backstory, see Talk:Mudkip/Archive02. -Jéské (v^_^v Kacheek!) 19:41, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Are you implying you dont leik mudkips? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob15grt (talk • contribs) 18:36, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm implying that those adding it to the article don't. -Jéské (Blah v^_^v) 08:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

But I luuuuuuuuuuuuve mudkipz! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.214.8.151 (talk) 01:16, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

No, you love spamming. You'd sooner hop onto a new meme. -Jéské (v^_^v E pluribus unum) 04:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello

Hello! Can someone add [[sv:Slamkrypare (fisk)]] to the end of the article, please? 213.67.50.57 (talk) 19:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)