Gobiodon brochus

The Gobiodon brochus lives in the reef-associated, marine, depth range 4 - 6 m environment.

Gobiodon brochus: a new species of gobiid fish (Teleostei: Gobioidei) from the western South Pacific, with a description of its unique jaw morphology. Copeia 1999 (no. 1): 49-57. More

Up until 1999, Gobiodon brochus was known as Gobiodon micropus. ... www.reefkeeping.com 3 Thomson Reuters BiologyBrowser - Latest Additions Gobiodon micropus - Goby. genome size - Animal Genome Size Database ... Gobiodon quinquestrigatus - Five-lined coral goby. More

Gobiodon brochus on Fish Mapper TSN 637394 (Taxonomic Serial Number) Retrieved on from the Integrated Taxonomic Information System online database. This is a cached copy. More

Gobiodon brochus, has a modified jaw. The exact function of this modified, protruding, deflected lower lip is not known, although it has been suggested that it utilizes its extra "toothy pad" to rasp tissue from coral polyps (Winterbottom, pers. comm.). More

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