#2130 · 🐟 fish

Rock Goby

🇳🇱 Paganelgrondel ·Gobius paganellus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
2. © Xavier Rufray · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Susanne Vogel · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Daniel PAVON · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Bernat Espigulé · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Sylvain Le Bris · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Sammy Kernane · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Sammy Kernane · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Gobius paganellus , the rock goby , is a small coastal goby of eastern Atlantic waters, from Scotland to Senegal. It is also reported from the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and is a Lessepsian migrant in the Gulf of Eilat and Red Sea. There are unconfirmed records from the area around Pointe Noire in the Congo Republic.

base stats

NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,908iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).