Day's goby articles - Encyclopedia of Life

Diagnostic Description

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Caudal fin rounded, a little shorter than head.

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 9

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Found in burrows on mud or silty sand bottoms.

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Acentrogobius dayi, the Day's goby, is a species of goby found in the Western Indian Ocean from the Persian Gulf to Pakistan.^[1]

This species reaches a length of 11.0 cm (4.3 in).^[2]

The fish is named in honor of Francis Day (1829-1889), the Inspector-General of Fisheries in India,^[3]

^ Myers, R.F., 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Acentrogobius dayi" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (a-c)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 March 2023.

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Acentrogobius dayi, the Day's goby, is a species of goby found in the Western Indian Ocean from the Persian Gulf to Pakistan.