#2134 · 🐟 fish

Painted Goby

🇳🇱 Kleurige grondel ·Pomatoschistus pictus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © peter Bardsley · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
3. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
4. © João Pedro Silva · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © João Encarnação · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Izola, SI-JP, SI:© Valentin Moser · CC BY 4.0
7. Ilhu Negro, Faial, Azores, Portugal:© jeyre · CC BY 4.0
8. Ilhu Negro, Faial, Azores, Portugal:© jeyre · CC BY 4.0
9. Pontevedra, ES-GA, ES:© javi-calvo · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 29910 Trégunc, France:© Donald Davesne · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The painted goby ( Pomatoschistus pictus ) is a small goby of Western European waters from Trondheim Fjord to Spain, the Canary Islands and is sometimes reported in the Mediterranean Sea. Also mentioned in the Black Sea. 4 ft), preferring a gravelly or sandy environment. Its young may sometimes be found in tide pools. It feeds on amphipods and copepods.

base stats

NL sightings 8iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 964iNaturalist 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).