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Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae						
							
							Etymology: Elacatinus: Greek, elakatines = fusiform fishes preserved in salt (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Colonel Edwin M Chance (d: 1954) was President of United Engineers & Constructors Inc. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Beebe & Hollister.						
					
				
					Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range					
						Ecology					
				
				
				
					Marine;  reef-associated; depth range 10 - 30 m (Ref. 9710). Tropical				
				 
			
			
			
				
				
				
					Western Central Atlantic:  Bahamas and the Antilles to northern Venezuela.  Does not occur in central America.
				
				
			
			
				
					Size / Weight / Age
				
				
				
					Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
 Max length : 5.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 13628)				
				 
			
			
						
				
				
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				Occurs inside tube sponges.			
			
			
			
			
				
					Life cycle and mating behavior					
					Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae				
				
				
				
								
				
			
			 
				
				
				
					Cervigón, F., 1994. Los peces marinos de Venezuela. Volume 3. Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas,Venezuela. 295 p. (Ref. 13628)
				
				 
			
			
			
							
					
						IUCN Red List Status   (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)
					
					
				 
					
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
				
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					  Harmless				
				
			 
			
			
			
			
				
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					Estimates based on models				
				
				
				Preferred temperature (Ref. 
123201): 26.6 - 28.1, mean 27.7 °C (based on 46 cells).
				
				
					
					Phylogenetic diversity index  (Ref. 
82804):  PD
50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].					
													Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01023 (0.00477 - 0.02194), b=3.01 (2.83 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 
93245).
					
					Trophic level  (Ref. 
69278):  3.5   ±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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						Nutrients  (Ref. 
124155):  Calcium = 209 [103, 478] mg/100g; Iron = 1.14 [0.57, 2.17] mg/100g; Protein = 18.3 [16.3, 20.0] %; Omega3 = 0.163 [0.069, 0.328] g/100g; Selenium = 24.9 [11.6, 53.5] μg/100g; VitaminA = 129 [36, 439] μg/100g; Zinc = 2.75 [1.74, 4.16] mg/100g (wet weight);