Author: (Collett, 1874)

Lebetus scorpioides (Collett, 1874)

Diagnosis: see genus. Dl VI (VI-VII); D2 I + 9-10, A I + 7-8, P 18-20 (17-21). Scales in lateral series 26-27 (25-29). Vertebrae 27-29. Colour: caudal peduncle with pale band; dark spot in upper anterior corner of second dorsal fin. Adult male: yellowish to dusky grey, with greyish lateral bars; first dorsal fin enlarged, dusky yellow, edged white; second dorsal fin with oblique yellow and white bands, edged intense black. Adult female: pale brown, with purplish-brown vertical bars; dorsal fins with yellow to orange-red, dark delimited bands; first dorsal fin with distal dark spot in rear corner. Size: to 3.9 cm.

Habitat: offshore, to 375 m, chiefly on coarse grounds, especially coralline deposits, but also on muddy areas. Food: small crustaceans (decapods, amphipods), polychaetes and bivalves. Reproduction: February-October (western English Channel), March-August (Isle of Man). Fecundity 270 at 2.8 cm. Sexually mature at 1 or 2 years. Lifespan: at least 2 years.

Distribution: eastern Atlantic (south-west Iceland, the Faroes and Hemnefjord, Norway, to northern Bay of Biscay).

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Fage, 1918: 63, 71, 101, fig. 54-56 | Demir & Russel, 1971: 669, fig. 2-3.
Otoliths (sagitta). Miller, 1963: 219, fig. 6A.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Gobioidei
Family Gobiidae
Genus Lebetus
Species Lebetus scorpioides

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Lebetus scorpioides (Collett, 1874)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Lebetus scorpioides (Collett, 1874)

Synonyms:

Gobius scorpioides Collett, 1874, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (4)13: 447 (Hardanger & Stavanger Fjords, Norway). Syntypes: two, ZMO no. J 4020-4021.
Gobius orca Collett, 1874, ibid.: 446 (Hardanger Fjord). Holotype: ZMO no. J 3999.
Lebetus scorpioides: Winther, 1877: 49 Duncker, 1928: 141, fig. 13 de Buen, 1930b: 125;1931: 50 Demir & Russell, 1971: 669 Miller, 1971c: 772.
Lebetus orca: Collett, 1885: 61, pl. 1 (fig. 1-2) Duncker, 1928: 142, fig. 14 de Buen, 1930b: 125; 1931: 50m Saemundsson, 1949: 38, 140 Miller, 1963: 216, fig. 3 4, pl. I Wheeler, 1969: 411, fig. 134.
Gobius jeffreysii: Günther, 1888, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinb., 15: 210 (part.), pl. III (fig. 3) (nec Günther, 1867).
Gobius orca: Smitt, 1893-1895: 259, fig. 66 Holt & Byrne, 1903: 57, fig. 5 Andersson, 1942: 85, pl. opp. 84;1954: 86, pl. opp. 86.
Gobius scorpioides: Smitt, 1893-1895: 260, fig. 67 Andersson, 1942: 85, pl. opp. 84; 1954: pl. opp. 86 (?)Dollfus, 1955: 71.
Gobius (Lebetus) scorpioides: Smitt, 1900: 554.
Gobius (Lebetus) orca: Le Danois, 1948: 121, 279.

Common name:

diminutive goby [En]
högfeniga smörbulten [Sv]
simpstubben [Sv]
ulkekutling [Da]

Andersson, K. A., ed. 1942. Fiskar och fiske i Norden. 1, Fiskar och fiske i havet. Stockholm, xvi+540 pp., 83 col. pl., 230 fig. 2, Fiskar och Fiske i Sjör och Floder: pp. xvii-xxiv+541-1016, fig. 231-426, col. pl. 84-128. (New edition in 1954, 2: pp. 425-769, 190 fig., 42 col. pl.)

Andriashev, A. P. 1954. Ryby severnykh morei SSSR. Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Moskwa-Leningrad. (English trans. 1964, Jerusalem, IPST, 617 pp., 300 fig.)

Buen, F. de 1930b. Lebetus Winther, 1877, Odondebuenia nov. gen. y Cabotia nov. gen. Trab. Inst. esp. Oceanogr., Madrid, 5: 30 pp., 11 fig.

Buen, F. de 1931b. Notas a la familia Gobiidae. Observaciones sobre algunos generos y sinopsis de las especies ibéricas. Notas Resúm. Inst. esp. Oceanogr., 2 (54): 76 pp.

Demir, N.; Russel, F. S. 1971. On the postlarva of the goby Lebetus. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K, 51: pp. 669-678.

Duncker, G. 1928. Teleostei Physoclisti. 9. Gobiiformes. In: G. Grimpe & E. Wagler, Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, 12 (12): g121-g147, 16 fig.

Günther, A. 1888. Report on the fishes obtained by Mr. J. Murray in deep waters on the North-West coast of Scotland, between April 1887 and March 1888. Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., lS, 127 (2): pp. 205-220, pl. III-IV.

Holt, E. W. L.; Byrne, L. W. 1903b. The British and Irish gobies. Rep. Sea. inld. Fish. Ire., 1901, 2: pp. 37-66.

Le Danois, Ed. 1948. Les Profondeurs de la Mer, Paris: 303 pp., 56 fig., pl. I-VIII.

Miller, P. J. 1963. Taxonomy and biology of the genus Lebetus (Teleostei-Gobioidea). Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist., Zool., 10: 205-256.

Saemundsson, B. 1949. Marine Pisces. Zoology Iceland, Copenhagen and Reykjavik, 4 (72): pp. 1-150.

Smitt, F. A. 1893-1895. (ed.) A history of Scandinavian fishes, Stockholm and Paris, Atlas, I, 1893, pl. i-xxvii.

Smitt, F. A. 1899. Preliminary notes on the arrangement of the genus Gobius, with an enumeration of its European species. Öfvers. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., 1899, 56 (6): pp. 543-555.

Wheeler, A. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto: pp. i-xvii+1-163, 5+177 fig., 392 fig. (princ. sp.), 92 n. num. fig., 16 pl., maps.

Winther, G. 1877-1878. Om de Danske fiske af slaegten Gobius. Naturh. Tidsskr., Kjøbenhavn, (3)11: pp. 41-56.

Collett, R. 1885. Meddelelser om Norges fiske i Aarene 1879-83 (2 det Hoved-Supplement til 'Norges Fiske'). Nyt. Mag. Naturvid., 1884, 29: 47-123, pl.

Dollfus, R. Ph. 1955. Première contribution à l'établissement d'un fichier ichthyologique du Maroc atlantique de Tanger à l'embouchure de l'Oued Dra. Trav. Inst. scient. chérif., Zool, (6): 227 pp., 1 map.

Fage, L. 1918. Shore-Fishes. Rep. Dan. oceanogr. Exped. Mediterr...., 2, Biology, (A.3): 154 pp., 114 fig., 16 maps.

Miller, P. J. 1971c. The species of Lebetus [Teleostei: Gobiidae]. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 51: 771-776.

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