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 Gobies of the Genus Coryphopterus 

By Bob Fenner

Coryphopterus glaucofraenum

Genus Coryphopterus: Twenty three species. 

Coryphopterus dicrus Bohlke & Robins 1960, the Colon Goby. Tropical West Atlantic; Florida to Venezuela. To two inches in length. In the Bahamas. Characterized by two prominent dots ahead of the pectoral fins.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3842&genusname=Coryphopterus&species
name=dicrus

Coryphopterus eidolon Bohlke & Robins 1960, the Pallid Goby. Western Atlantic; Florida to the Lower Antilles. Yellow stripe extends from behind eye. To two and a quarter inches in length. One in the Bahamas, another in Grand Turk. 
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3843&genusname=Coryphopterus&species
name=eidolon

Coryphopterus glaucofraenum Gill 1863, the Bridled Goby. Western Atlantic; N. Carolina to Brazil. To three inches in length.  One photographed in the Bahamas. another in Bonaire. 
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=28076&genusname=Coryphopterus&species
name=venezuelae

Coryphopterus lipernes Bohlke & Robins 1962, the Peppermint Goby. Western Atlantic; Bahamas to the Lower Antilles, Caribbean coast. To one and a quarter inch in length. Bahamas, Cozumel and Bonaire pix.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3846&genusname=Coryphopterus&species
name=lipernes


Coryphopterus nicholsii, (Bean 1882), the Blackeye Goby. Northeastern Pacific: Wales I., northern British Columbia, Canada to Punta Rompiente, central Baja California, Mexico. To 15cm - almost six inches - in length. Pictures taken off the San Diego coast.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3847&genusname=Rhinogobiops&species
name=nicholsii

Coryphopterus personatus, (Jordan & Thompson 1905), the Masked Goby. To 4 cm. Western Atlantic; Florida to Lower Antilles. Bonaire and Jamaica pix, where this species is ubiquitous on the coral reefs.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3848&genusname=Coryphopterus&species
name=personatus

Coryphopterus urospilus, Ginsburg 1938, the Redlight Goby. To 6.5 cm. Eastern Central Pacific: Baja California, Mexico to the Galapagos Islands. Galapagos image.
http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=25534&genusname=Coryphopterus&species
name=urospilus

Coryphopterus sp. Hawaiian Sand Goby. According to Randall, formerly misidentified as Fusigobius neophytus (Gunther 1877). Here in shallow sand on the Big Island.

 


 

 

 

 

 

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