Giant goby
Gobiomorus dormitor
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Eleotridae
- Genus
- Gobiomorus
Where to Find
Found in 31 diving areas across 20 countries and 4 regions.
- Andros, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 1 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 5 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 5 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 5 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 5 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 9 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 4 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 9 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 3 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 22 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 9 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 7 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 6 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 6 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 8 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 4 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 26 records
- Caribbean Coast, Costa Rica - 43 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 31 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 24 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 3 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 3 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 4 records