Burrowing goby
Encyclopedia
The Burrowing Goby or Naked Goby (Croilia mossambica) is a species of fish
in the Gobiidae family. Its genus
Croilia is monotypic
.
It is found in Mozambique
and South Africa
. This species has a very limited distribution and is becoming rare due to coastal development, pollution, and siltation of estuaries caused by soil erosion from further inland.
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the Gobiidae family. Its genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
Croilia is monotypic
Monotypic
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group with only one biological type. The term's usage differs slightly between botany and zoology. The term monotypic has a separate use in conservation biology, monotypic habitat, regarding species habitat conversion eliminating biodiversity and...
.
It is found in Mozambique
Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
and South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
. This species has a very limited distribution and is becoming rare due to coastal development, pollution, and siltation of estuaries caused by soil erosion from further inland.
Source
- Skelton, P. 1996. Croilia mossambica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.