Glossogobius bicirrhosus
Bearded 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 bicirrhosus ranges from Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and China through New Guinea to north-eastern Australia, recorded from Weipa south to Rollingstone, Queensland, including the Embley, Barron, Bloomfield, Johnstone, Moresby, Mowbray, Mulgrave, Daintree and Maria Creek systems, in freshwater streams just above tidal influence.
Compiled for Home of the Rainbowfish from ANGFA sources: Anonymous, “Glossogobius bicirrhosus Bearded Flathead Goby”, In-Stream 24, 2015, p. 23; J. Lenagan, “Cairns to Weipa and back, through a new lens: Part 2. Gobioides of the Wet Tropics”, Fishes of Sahul 34, 2020, pp. 1642–1657.