Transparent goby: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the transparent goby lives – recorded in 13 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Aphia minuta
Group	Bony fish
Found in	13 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Ray-finned fish
Order	Gobiiformes
Family	Gobiidae

Where does the transparent goby live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the transparent goby in 13 countries and territories across Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What kind of animal is the transparent goby?

The transparent goby (Aphia minuta) is a ray-finned fish in the order Gobiiformes and the family Gobiidae, genus Aphia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the transparent goby

Aphia minuta, the transparent goby, is a species of the goby native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean where it can be found from Trondheim, Norway to Morocco. It is also found in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. It is a pelagic species, inhabiting inshore waters and estuaries. It can be found at depths of from the surface to 97 metres (318 ft), though it is usually found at 5 to 80 metres (16 to 262 ft), over sandy and muddy bottoms and also in eelgrass beds. This species can reach a length of 7.9 centimetres (3.1 in) TL. It is an important species to local commercial fisheries. It is currently the only known extant member of its genus. A fossil relative, †Aphia macrophthalma Schwarzhans et al., 2016 is known from the Middle Miocene of Serbia.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Transparent goby (revision 1318236449), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q1811730 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).