Pomatoschistus tortonesei, Tortonese's goby, is a species of goby native to the Mediterranean Sea where it is known from Marsala, Sicily and the Farwah Lagoon in western Libya. This species occurs in shallow waters ranging in salinity from brackish to just slightly hypersaline. It prefers habitats with sandy substrates near to beds of seagrass. Its diet consists of small crustaceans and gastropods.[2] It is threatened by the fragmentation and destruction of its preferred habitat by silting.[1] The specific name honours the Italian zoologist Enrico Tortonése (1911-1987) of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.[3]

Tortonese's goby
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Pomatoschistus
Species:
P. tortonesei
Binomial name
Pomatoschistus tortonesei

References

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  1. ^ a b FHerler, J.; Williams, J.T. & Kovacic, M. (2014). "Pomatoschistus tortonesei". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T194885A49082042. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T194885A49082042.en.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Pomatoschistus tortonesei". FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (14 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (i-p)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 September 2018.