Fries's goby (''Lesueurigobius friesii'') is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of goby native to the Eastern

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

along the coasts of

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and northern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

as well as 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 ...

to the Sea of Marmara. This species burrows into muddy or muddy sand substrates at depths of from and is frequently found in association with the Norway lobster '' Nephrops norvegicus''. This species can reach a length of TL. The

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honours the

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zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the Animal, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

Bengt Fredrik Fries Bengt Fredrik Fries (24 August 1799, in Helsingborg – 7 April 1839, in Stockholm) was a Swedish zoologist. He studied at Lund University. Works *Observationes entomologicæ (1824) *Beskrifning nya insekter från Colombien (1833). *Skandinaviens ...

(1799-1839).

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* Fries's goby Marine fish of Europe Fish of the North Sea Fish of the Mediterranean Sea Marine fish of North Africa Fries's goby {{gobiidae-stub