The Malabar goby, Stenogobius gymnopomus is a species of goby endemic to the Indo-Pacific regional countries such as India, Somalia, Indonesia, Andaman Islands. where it can be found in marine, brackish and fresh waters. The habitats include coastal waters, estuaries and tidal zone of rivers. This species can reach a length of 15.0 centimetres (5.9 in) SL.[3] It feeds mainly on cladocerans, as well as fish eggs and scales.[4] This species is a batch spawner which has a prolonged spawning season, extending from August to December in Kerala. The female's fecundity was between 46,323 and 61,291 eggs while the sex ratios favours males in local populations.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Stenogobius |
| Species: | S. gymnopomus
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| Stenogobius gymnopomus (Bleeker, 1853)
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References
edit- ^ Larson, H. (2019). "Stenogobius gymnopomus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T186089A58334879. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-2.RLTS.T186089A58334879.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Stenogobius gymnopomus (Bleeker, 1853)".
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Stenogobius gymnopomus". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ a b Lekshmi, S.; Prasad, G.; Kumari, S. D. Rita (2010). "Bionomics of a lesser known goby, Stenogobius gymnopomus (Bleeker, 1853) (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from southern Kerala, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 2 (13): 1359. doi:10.11609/JoTT.o2328.1359-64.
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