gobioid

gobioid

(ˈɡəʊbɪˌɔɪd)
adj
(Animals) of or relating to the Gobioidea, a suborder of spiny-finned teleost fishes that includes gobies and mudskippers (family Gobiidae) and sleepers (family Eleotridae)
n
(Animals) any gobioid fish
[C19: from New Latin Gobioidea, from Latin gōbius gudgeon]
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(30.) Zander CD (1982) Feeding ecology of littoral Gobioid and Blennioid fish of the Banyuls area (Mediterranean Sea), Item Main Food and Trophic Dimension of Niche and Ecotope.
This finding is the opposite pattern from that found in most gonochoric gobioid species, in which sperm duct-associated secretory structures have been described only in association with the male reproductive system.
Their topics include molecular systematics of Gobioid fishes, Gobiiformes of the Americas, amphidromy as a life cycle among tropical freshwater gobies, gobies as predator and prey, early development, planktonic and paedomorphic gobioids, and mudskippers as front runners in the modern invasion of land.
Induced spawning by hormone-operation, egg-development and larva of blind gobioid fish, Odontamblyopus rubicundus.
Breeding sounds of male Padogobius nigricans (Teleostei: Gobiidae) with suggestions for further evolutionary study of vocal behaviour in gobioid fishes.
A study of the vertebral column and median fin osteology in gobioid fishes with comments on gobioid relationships.
Even more surprising are the mudskippers, a small group of tropical fish of the gobioid family with very peculiar habits.
Gobioid fishes of the families Gob-iidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae, and Kraemeriidae of the Western Indian Ocean.
His lab focuses on the diversity, evolution and conservation of fishes with an emphasis on gobioid fish systematics.