Glossogobius aureus
Golden Flathead Goby
One of Australia and New Guinea’s largest and most taxonomically active goby genera, Glossogobius (“Flathead Gobies” or “Tank Gobies”) includes some of the region’s largest and most commonly encountered freshwater gobies, several only formally described within the last two decades.
Glossogobius aureus ranges from South Africa through Asia, Indonesia and New Guinea to northern Australia, between the Kimberley and the Burdekin River. It is an egg-laying benthic spawner with a marine larval stage, though some Australian and Indonesian populations have become landlocked in freshwater lakes and dams. A carnivore, it takes insect larvae, crustaceans and small fish.
Compiled for Home of the Rainbowfish from ANGFA sources: Anonymous, “Glossogobius aureus Golden Flathead Goby”, In-Stream 24, 2015, p. 29 (citing Akihito & K. Meguro, “A new gobiid fish, Glossogobius aureus, found in fresh and brackish waters of Japan and Taiwan”, Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 22, 1975, pp. 127–142).