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Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known only from Lagu Lagu creek on the western slope of Leyte Island. Museum: Lagu Lagu creek, ca. 2 km from sea, S margin of Visayan State College, ZRC 38286/CMK 10047 (Ref. 26365). Endemic status computed from FishBase data (country records, occurrences records in literature and in point data) on 16/07/08. Also Ref. 87905.
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Watson, R.E. and M. Kottelat, 1994
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Common names from other countries

菲律宾瓢眼鰕虎鱼, 菲律賓瓢眼鰕虎魚, ... more

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Sicydiinae
Etymology: Sicyopus: Greek, sika, sikya = cucumber + Greek, pous = foot (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Watson & Kottelat.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecología

; agua dulce; salobre bentopelágico; anfidromo (Ref. 26364). Tropical

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Asia: known only from Lagu Lagu creek in Leyte Island, Philippines.

Tamaño / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 2.9 cm SL macho / no sexado; (Ref. 26365)

Found over coarse gravel in a small, rather swift, shallow stream about 3 m wide. Possibly amphidromous (Ref. 26364).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reproducción | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larva

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Watson, R.E. and M. Kottelat, 1994. Lentipes whittenorum and Sicyopus auxilimentus, two new species of freshwater gobies from the western Pacific (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Sicydiinae). Ichthyol. Explor. Freshwat. 5(4):351-364. (Ref. 26365)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

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Sicyopus auxilimentus Watson & Kottelat, 1994