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Great Blue-spotted Mudskipper

Boleophthalmus pectinirostris

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Field Notes

Description:

As the tide went out scores, if not hundreds, of these appeared.

Habitat:

Tidal mudflats

Reference Links:

Great Blue-spotted Mudskipper - Boleophthalmus pectinirostris

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (4)
HemaShah
stunning!They are sad looking!!
Malcolm Wilton-Jones
The file on the reference link says 15cm for this species, some of the others are up to 28cm. I have identified 4 species so far in my photographs and that was just two sites near Malacca, we also saw them in Borneo and Singapore.

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