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the smallest fish on Earth, mostly, and an interior decorator with fins
means A small fish from a large family (Gobiidae) of mostly bottom-dwelling species, many of which have fused pelvic fins forming a little suction cup that lets them cling to rocks and surfaces.
from From the Latin 'gobius,' itself borrowed from the Greek 'kobios,' an ancient name for a small fish — the same root that gives us 'gudgeon.' The Greeks and Romans were eating and naming these little fish long before anyone catalogued their fin-cups, so the word is genuinely old, passed hand to hand around the Mediterranean.
- size record
- Some species mature under a centimeter long
- shrimp roommate
- Many share burrows with blind shrimp partners
- sticky feet
- Pelvic fins fuse into a suction-cup disc
- diversity
- Largest marine fish family, over 2000 species
- climbing fish
- Hawaiian gobies scale waterfalls with mouth suckers
mudskipper — amphibious goby that walks on land in mangrove swamps across indo-pacific regions
yongeichthys nebulosus — blind goby living in underwater caves off the coast of mexico
pygmy goby — smallest goby species at 1 cm, found in coral reefs of the indo-pacific