timberwolf-manstab:

Hey. Pssst. Hey.

Yeah you.

You wanna see some some cool fish?

Of course you do! Come with me and I will show you the glory and wonder of freshwater (and estuarine) gobies!

The goby family, Gobiidae, is massive. Like, thousands and thousands of species massive. And some of those thousands are nifty and criminally underrated freshwater species. (And also gobies are some of my favourite fish of all time ever).

Here we go!

We start with the ever popular, and often misidentified bumblebee gobies (Brachygobius spp.), a group of diminutive brackish/freshwater species.

The truely tiny, 1 cm long dwarf Pygmy goby (Pandaka pygmaea).

The charming Rhinohorn goby (Redigobius balteatus).

The very handsome Desert goby (Chlamydogobius eremius).

The Red Cheek goby (Lentipes armatus). Gosh.

And the Red Tailed goby (Sicyopterus lagocephalus). Golly!

The Lipstick goby (Sicyopus exallisquamulus). Now that’s A Look.

Sicyopus zosterophorum, whose common name I’m not sure about. But look at this little belted fashion icon!

It looks like I’m getting close to the 10-picture limit, so hang tight for goby post part 2, where I gush about the genera Stiphodon and Rhinogobius!

(via hella-free-space)