Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga65_2cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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NOTES 123 Bay gobies were collected in Morro Bay from an area primarily comprised of mudflats exposed during low tides of 0.0 height or less. This site is the intertidal area of Zone IV described by Fierstine, et al. (1973). Benthic algae, mainly Ulva and Enteromorpha spp, and beds of eel-grass, Zostera marina, are common. The invertebrate fauna is highly diverse and the burrows of crustaceans, molluscs, and echiurans are numerous. Gobies were collected by hand or with the aid of quinaldine and dip nets in isolated mudflat tidepools. Burrow inhabitants were identified by excavating their burrows. RESULTS Eight specimens of L. lepidus, ranging in length from 56 to 78 mm (2.2 to 3.1 inches) standard length were taken from burrows during the period of Decem- ber 1975 to May 1976. Three fish were removed from burrows of the blue mud shrimp, Upogebiapugettensis (Figure 1), two from the siphon holes of geoduck clams, Panope generosa, and three from burrows of the echiuroid worm, Ure- chis caupo. An additional 168 specimens of L. lepidus were removed from unidentified burrows in an area with dense populations of Upogebia pugettensis and Urechis caupo.
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FIGURE 1. An anesthesized bay goby, Lepidogobius lepidus, emerging fronn a suspected Upogebia pugettensis burrow. Photograph by author. DISCUSSION My collections indicate that L. lepidus is one of the numerically dominant fish species in the lower intertidal zone of Morro Bay, although Fierstine et al. (1973) captured only one bay goby in 3 years of otter trawling, even though a large portion of their sampling was within 10 to 50 m (33 to 164 ft) of my collection

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