Tortonese's goby
| Tortonese's goby | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobiinae |
| Genus: | Pomatoschistus |
| Species: | P. tortonesei |
| Binomial name | |
| Pomatoschistus tortonesei P. J. Miller, 1969 | |
Pomatoschistus tortonesei, Tortonese's goby, is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea where it is known from Marsala, Sicily and the Farwah Lagoon in western Libya. This species occurs in shallow waters ranging in salinity from brackish to just slightly hypersaline. It prefers habitats with sandy substrates near to beds of seagrass. Its diet consists of small crustaceans and gastropods.[2] It is threatened by the fragmentation and destruction of its preferred habitat by silting.[1]
References
- 1 2 Francour, P., Bilecenoglu, M., Bariche, M. & Molinari, A. and Di Natale, A. 2011. Pomatoschistus tortonesei. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 September 2013.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Pomatoschistus tortonesei" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
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