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Guillet’s goby (Lebetus guilleti)

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

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(Guillet’s goby. Photo by © Jürgen Herler. fishbase.org)

Guillets goby (Lebetus guilleti) was first described in 1913 by the French zoologist Édouard Le Danois (1887-1968).

It inhabits at depths of up to 30 meters, usually 8-10 meters. It occurs near the rocky bottom and shell rock. The maximum recorded length is 2.5 cm.

Lebetus guilleti

(Guillet’s goby. Photo © Ichthyology Database of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. artedi.nrm.se)

It is a rare species. In the Adriatic Sea, it is found in its northeastern part near the coast of Croatia.

Names of transparent Guillets goby (Lebetus guilleti) in other languages as follows:

Ghiozzo minuto (Italian), Guillet-Grundel (German), Бычок Гиллета (Bychok Gilleta) (Russian), Guilletijev gujoč, Guilletijev glavoč (Serbian, Croatian), Gobie nain de Guillet (French).