''Padogobius nigricans'', the Arno goby, is a species of
goby
Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have b ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...
. It occurs in streams, staying to well-vegetated edge areas. Males of this species reach a length of
TL while the females only reach TL.
References
Padogobius
Freshwater fish of Europe
Endemic fauna of Italy
Fish described in 1867
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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