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Orangespotted Goby

Nes longus

Classification

Family
Gobiidae

The orangespotted goby (Nes longus) is a species of goby native to the tropical Atlantic coast from Bermuda and southern Florida through the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico south to the Caribbean coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, where it prefers silty bottoms around reefs. It is a commensal with an alpheid shrimp. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 65France · 21United Kingdom · 3Netherlands · 1