Coryphopterus personatus, commonly referred to as the masked goby, is a marine species of goby found in the western-central Atlantic Ocean.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Coryphopterus |
| Species: | C. personatus
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| Coryphopterus personatus (D. S. Jordan & J. C. Thompson, 1905)
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C. personatus is a cryptobenthic species, living in caves and shaded areas near the sea floor in reef communities. Masked gobies are sequential hermaphrodites and are capable of changing sexes.[3]
Description
editThis species reaches a maximum length of 4.0 cm (1.6 in).[4] This species is difficult to differentiate from the closely-related C. hyalinus. C. personatus has a dark "mask" on its face, a faint dusky stripe on the lower rear margin of the body, and a translucent patch on the center of the top of its head. C. personatus is also slightly larger than C. hyalinus, which only reaches 3 cm (1.2 in).[5]
References
edit- ^ Pezold, F., van Tassell, J., Aiken, K.A., Tornabene, L. & Bouchereau, J.-L. (2015). "Coryphopterus personatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T185960A1794928. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-2.RLTS.T185960A1794928.en. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p
- ^ Allsop, David; West, Stuart (2004). "Sex allocation in the sex-changing marine goby, Coryphopterus personatus, on atoll-fringing reefs". Evolutionary Ecology Research. 6: 843–855.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coryphopterus personatus". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ "Coryphopterus personatus". Reef Life Survey | Reef Species of the World. Retrieved 2024-06-02.
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