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Slender Goby
Gobius geniporus
42.5867, 18.2153
Field Notes
Description:
Locally known as 'Glavoč bjelaš', the Slender goby is bottom dweller, preferring sands, but using rocks and sea grass as hiding places. It is very fast and well camouflaged fish. Mainly light-brown with characteristic darker blotches on sides.
Habitat:
This is an endemic of Mediterranean sea, and a very common littoral fish in Adriatic, occurring all along Croatian coast. Here, observed often on a popular beaches in a village of Dubrovnik riviera (Cavtat). The depth in this zone is between 0,5m up to 3m, and then descending sharply down to 10m. The sea bottom here is rocky, creating many crevasses and tunnels, and rocks are abundantly covered in algae. In those deeper waters, there are some large colonies of sea grass.
Notes:
This summer I decided to spend more time snorkelling among rocks close to shores, in search of blennies, gobies and similar rockbottom dwellers. Mission accomplished and I got a load of photos of them - unfortunately, most of them are too blurry, as they are very fast to move and hide, and most often occur as fleeting shadow in my pics...
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