''Gobius incognitus'', the incognito goby or anemone goby, is a species of goby native to the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

and perhaps the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

.M. Kovačić, R. Šanda, 2016 : ''A new species of Gobius (Perciformes: Gobiidae) from the Mediterranean Sea and the redescription of Gobius bucchichi.'' Zootaxa, , . The name ''incognitus'' means "unknown" in

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

and refers to the long period of time that passed before this common and widespread species was recognized and described. Prior to its description, it was confused with

Bucchich's goby Bucchich's goby (''Gobius bucchichi'') is a species of goby native to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (at least the Adriatic and Aegean Seas) and perhaps the Black Sea. It has traditionally been considered to be more widespread, but in 2016 the sim ...

(''G. bucchichi''), a species that now appears to be restricted to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and perhaps the Black Sea. Much previously published information for Bucchich's goby is now considered to actually be for the incognito goby. The incognito goby typically reaches a length of , and feeds on small

invertebrate Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...

s and algae. The incognito goby is found at the bottom from shallow water to a depth of . It is often associatied with the sea anemone ''

Anemonia sulcata ''Anemonia sulcata'', or Mediterranean snakelocks sea anemone, is a species of sea anemone in the family Actiniidae from the Mediterranean Sea. Whether ''A. sulcata'' should be recognized as a synonym of '' A. viridis'' remains a matter of disput ...

'', hiding amongst its tentacles when threatened.Debelius, H. (1997). ''Mediterranean and Atlantic Fish Guide.'' Juveniles are typically found with

sea urchin Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin live on the seabed of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of ...

References

Fish of the Mediterranean Sea incognitus Fish described in 2016 {{Gobiidae-stub