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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiesociformes (Clingfishes) > Gobiesocidae (Clingfishes and singleslits) > Gobiesocinae
Etymology: Tomicodon: Greek, tomikos, -e, -on = that is useful for cutting (Ref. 45335); reitzae: Named for Elizabeth J. Reitz, Director of the Georgia Museum of Natural History (Ref. 45765).
More on author: Briggs.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal; depth range 0 - 4 m (Ref. 58018). Tropical

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Western Central Atlantic: Bahamas, throughout the Greater and Lesser Antilles to the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, and Isla de Providencia off the coast of Colombia.

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 50106)

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7-9; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 7 - 10; Vertebrae: 34 - 38. Four pairs of trifid incisors in each jaw; very small canines; anus markedly closer to rear margin of disc than to origin of anal fin; disc measuring 5.0 in SL; margin of anterior nostril without dermal flap; externally visible anal fin rays 5; caudal rays 8 (Ref. 45765).

Facultative air-breathing in the genus (Ref. 126274); Collected from the shallow surge zone (Ref. 50106). Feeds on small crustaceans (Ref. 50106).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Williams, Jeffrey T. | Collaborators

Williams, J.T. and J.C. Tyler, 2003. Revision of the western Atlantic clingfishes of the genus Tomicodon (Gobiesocidae), with descriptions of five new species. Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 621:1-26. (Ref. 50106)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 March 2011

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 26.7 - 28.2, mean 27.5 °C (based on 468 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00617 (0.00250 - 0.01521), b=3.15 (2.94 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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