Blue-spot goby

The Blue-spot goby lives in the demersal, freshwater, brackish environment.

A Blue-spot Goby in Wallaga Lake, southern New South Wales. More

This is a factsheet about the Western blue-spot goby, which is a species of native fish found in the Murray-Darling Basin. The information in this factsheet has been extracted from Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin: an introductory guide by Mark Lintermans. More

The Western blue-spot goby is really a marginal freshwater/estuarine species and occupies brackish estuaries and associated freshwater streams and lakes. It is benthic, burrowing and usually recorded over mud or rock substrates, occasionally in weedy areas. More

Common names

Blue-spot goby in English
bluespot goby in English
Southern goby in English
Swan river goby in English
天鵝擬鰕虎魚 in Mandarin Chinese
天鹅拟鰕虎鱼 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Perciformes
Family : Gobiidae
Genus : Pseudogobius
Species : Pseudogobius olorum
Authority : Sauvage, 1880