Burrowing goby | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Subfamily: | Gobiinae |
Genus: | Croilia |
Species: | C. mossambica |
Binomial name | |
Croilia mossambica Smith, 1955 |
The Burrowing Goby or Naked Goby (Croilia mossambica) is a species of fish in the Gobiidae family. Its genus Croilia is monotypic.
It is found in Mozambique and South Africa. This species has a very limited distribution and is becoming rare due to coastal development, pollution, and siltation of estuaries caused by soil erosion from further inland.