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HUWAT KSAFISH Fishes of Saudi Arabia Red Sea and Arabian Gulf An initiative of the HUWAT ecosystem
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HWT-FISH-0159

Shadow goby

Yongeichthys nebulosus

(Forsskål, 1775)

Yongeichthys nebulosus (hairfin goby), iNaturalist observation 142333160 (Lockhart, Queensland, Australia, 4 October 2022). Identified by the iNaturalist community (research grade, at least two agreeing identifiers): a community identification, weaker than a museum determination. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters.
Yongeichthys nebulosus (hairfin goby), iNaturalist observation 142333160 (Lockhart, Queensland, Australia, 4 October 2022). Identified by the iNaturalist community (research grade, at least two agreeing identifiers): a community identification, weaker than a museum determination. The photograph is not evidence of occurrence in Saudi waters. © Tom Field, some rights reserved (CC BY), via iNaturalist observation 142333160 · CC BY 4.0

Species GOBIIDAE Fish Name used in this encyclopedia

Quick facts

Saudi context in this record

Occurrence records

The encyclopedia holds no published occurrence record for this taxon in Saudi waters yet.

Measurements and characters

Documentation status

documented from a photographed and measured specimen

No source is linked to this value.

Names

English common names

Shadow goby

Local names with no recorded scope

  • الجوبي Local name draft

Classification

YongeichthysGenus GOBIIDAEFamily GobiiformesOrder ActinopterygiiClass ChordataPhylum AnimaliaKingdom

Conservation

No governed conservation assessment is published for this taxon. The absence of a published assessment is not an assessment of low concern.

Distribution

The encyclopedia holds no published scientific distribution records for this taxon.

This section shows source-backed scientific distribution only. Community observations are not listed here and no scientific distribution is inferred from them.

Others in this family

Taxa of the same family. That is a taxonomic relationship, not a statement of resemblance; the encyclopedia holds no diagnostic characters or lookalike relations yet.

Information not yet documented in this record

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Scientific sources

أسماك من المياه الإقليمية للمملكة في البحر الأحمر — مركز أبحاث الثروة السمكية، جـدة (2011). ط١ ١٤٣٢هـ/٢٠١١م.
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Record last modified: 2026-09-12