Microdesmus dorsipunctatus Dawson 1968
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Microdesmidae
- genus
- Microdesmus
- species
- Microdesmus dorsipunctatus
description
Black-spotted Worm Goby or Spotback Wormfish. To 12.5 cm (4.9 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Bahía Almejas, southern Baja California (24 ° 22 ’ N, 111 ° 42 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Panama (Dawson 1968). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min.: Dawson 1968; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).