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Clevelandia ios (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)

Arrow goby
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobionellinae
Etymology: ios: From the Latin ios, meaning 'arrow' (Ref. 27436).
Eponymy: Daniel Cleveland (1838–1929) was a founding partner and President of the San Diego Society of Natural History. He was honoured because he had: “…done much towards making known the fauna and flora of Southern California”. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Jordan & Gilbert.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 0 - 2 m (Ref. 96339). Subtropical; 55°N - 22°N, 136°W - 111°W

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Eastern Pacific: Rivers Inlet, British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - 3.4 cm
Max length : 6.4 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 27436); common length : 4.2 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 12193); max. reported age: 3.00 years (Ref. 72494)

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Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15 - 17; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 14 - 17. Caudal rounded.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits sand or mud bottom. Retreats into shrimp burrows when threatened and at low tide (Ref. 6885). Commonly in estuaries, lagoons and tidal sloughs. Reported to occur in freshwater. Adults feeds on diatoms, green algae, tintinnids, eggs and young of their hosts (Ref. 6885). Positions large food particles near crabs to be torn to smaller pieces (Ref. 6885). Preyed upon by Sebastes, staghorn sculpin, whitespot greenling, and terns (Ref. 6885). Unlike other gobies, it does not build a nest or care for its young (Ref. 2850).

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Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p. (Ref. 2850)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: public aquariums
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 9.4 - 18.5, mean 10.8 °C (based on 189 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 1.0000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00977 (0.00444 - 0.02153), b=3.04 (2.85 - 3.23), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.1   ±0.42 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (tm=1; tmax=2.5).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.