Mugilogobius rambaiae

(Smith, 1945)

Cheek-spots Mangrovegoby

Mugilogobius (“Mangrove Gobies”) is a genus of small, hardy gobies typically found in mangrove creeks, storm drains and other brackish or freshwater habitats close to the coast. A 2001 taxonomic revision by Helen Larson recognised 25 species in the genus, nine of them then known from Australia.

Known range Thailand to New Guinea, Mugilogobius rambaiae has been tentatively identified from Darwin-region specimens, though the fit was not perfect — the elongated first dorsal spine of the Darwin fish did not entirely match published descriptions, so the identification should be treated as provisional pending further confirmation.

Compiled for Home of the Rainbowfish from ANGFA sources: N. Armstrong, “Mangrove gobies”, Fishes of Sahul 16, 2002, pp. 892–897.