''Sicydium brevifile'' is a species of
goby from the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
Sicydiinae
The Sicydiinae are a small subfamily (about 118 species) of freshwater gobies, with only nine genera. They are usually found in fast-moving mountain streams in tropical islands. They are characterized by highly developed rounded suction discs an ...
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It is an
amphidromous
Fish migration is mass relocation by fish from one area or body of water to another. Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousan ...
endemic in western Cameroon and the islands of the
Gulf of Guinea where the adults inhabit the clearwater streams of the volcanic islands and on the slopes of
Mount Cameroon, having ascended from the sea as larvae.
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means "short thread", Latin ''brevis'' and ''filum'', probably a reference to the "small median papilla above the maxillary suture".
References
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Taxa named by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant
Fish described in 1884
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