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Istigobius hoesei Murdy & McEachran, 1982

Hoese's sandgoby
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: Istigobius: Greek, istios = sail + Latin, gobius = gudgeon (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Dr Douglass Fielding ‘Doug’ Hoese (d: 1942) is Senior Fellow, Ichthyology Collection, Australian Museum, Sydney. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

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

Marine; demersal; depth range 5 - 7 m, usually 5 - 7 m (Ref. 27115). Subtropical; 22°C - 27°C (Ref. 27115); 30°S - 37°S

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Southwest Pacific: in bays near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. One specimen tentatively identified as this species was collected from Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 6.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 420); 6.6 cm TL (female)

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 9 - 10; Vertebrae: 26. Body grayish white. Upper pectoral fin rays entire. Predorsal cycloid scales 8-12; ctenoid on trunk. Head greenish brown with faint yellow-orange band diagonally on preoperculum and operculum with some black areas on the former; lateral part of jaws, especially upper, black. Males usually darker than females; length of anal, pelvic and 2nd dorsal fins longer in males.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Collected from silty sand near large rocks.

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Male genital papilla usually ending to side of anal. Female genital papilla truncate and ending well before the origin of anal fin.

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Murdy, E.O. and D.F. Hoese, 1985. Revision of the gobiid fish genus Istigobius. Indo-Pac. Fish. (4):41 p. (Ref. 420)

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: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 20.2 - 21.8, mean 21.2 °C (based on 9 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5010   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00477 - 0.02194), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Very high.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 386 [154, 1,021] mg/100g; Iron = 1.89 [0.99, 4.08] mg/100g; Protein = 18.4 [16.4, 20.1] %; Omega3 = 0.341 [0.132, 0.727] g/100g; Selenium = 12.1 [5.3, 28.4] μg/100g; VitaminA = 24.2 [6.1, 88.8] μg/100g; Zinc = 1.69 [1.06, 2.72] mg/100g (wet weight);