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Scientific Name: Boleophthalmus boddarti (Pallas, 1770)
English Name: Boddart’s goggle-eyed goby
Local/Bangla Name: Chiring (চিড়িং), Dahuk (ডাহুক), Meni mach (মেনি মাছ)
Labcode: F1602sb-62
Photo: ABR Lab
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Teleostei
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Description:
D1 V; D2 27; P1 20; P2 10; A 25. Body grayish-green dorsally with 6-7 oblique bands; greenish-white ventrally; head and trunk with small white spots; brown spots on head and nape; dorsal fin bluish green with small white spots; pectoral fin with dark margin. Body elongate and little compressed;base of dorsal and anal fins long; pelvic frenum well developed; teeth in single row on jaws. Caudal fin lanceolate. Scale cycloid.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Occur in brackish water of estuaries and freshwater tidal zone. Also inhabit in burrows and is often found on mudflats in extremely shallow water where it browses on algae.
Environment:
Freshwater, Brackish (Demersal; amphidromous)
Comments:
It is also found in marine envirment
Main References:
Rahman AKA (2005) Freshwater Fishes of Bangladesh. 2nd ed. Zool. Soc. Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. xviii + 394 pp.
Other References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hasan MA, Khondker M and Rahman MM (eds.) (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh. Vol. 23. Freshwater Fishes. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka. 300+xxxi. pp.
