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De Buen’s goby (Buenia affinis)

Fish of the Buenia genus of the Gobiinae (true gobies) subfamily of the Gobiidae family of the Gobiiformes order of the Percomorpha clade of the Acanthopterygii superorder.

(De Buen’s goby. Photo by © Šárka Mašová. biolib.cz)

De Buens goby (Buenia affinis) was first described in 1930 by the Russian ichthyologist Boris Ilyin (1889-1958).

It inhabits the depth of 3-25 meters, usually 5-20 meters. It occurs above a sandy bottom with lonely stones. The maximum recorded length is 3.3 cm.

Buenia affinis

(De Buen’s goby. Photo by © Robert A. Patzner. fishbase.org)

This species in the Adriatic Sea is most commonly found in Kvarner Bay in Croatia, in other locations single meetings are registered.

Names of De Buens goby (Buenia affinis) in other languages as follows:

Buenia (Spanish), Ghiozzetto reticolato (Italian), De-Buens-Grundel (German), Gujočić mreškan, Glavočić mreškan (Serbian, Croatian), Gobie de De Buen (French).