''Lethops connectens'', the halfblind goby, is a
species of
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goby native to the eastern
Pacific Ocean from central
California, United States to
Baja California, Mexico where they inhabit
kelp forests. The adults hide amongst the stones and the holdfasts of
kelp on the seabed while the juveniles form schools in the kelp canopy. This species can reach a length of
TL. Like the name suggests, the eyes of ''L. connectens'' are highly reduced.
[Carl L. Hubbs (1926).]
Notes on the gobioid fishes of California, with descriptions of two new genera
. ''Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan'' (169): 1–7. This species is the only known member of its
genus.
See also
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Blind goby
The blind goby (''Typhlogobius californiensis'') is a species of fish in the goby family, the only species in the genus ''Typhlogobius''. It is native to the coastlines of southern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico, whe ...
*
Blind fish
References
Gobionellinae
Monotypic fish genera
Fish described in 1926
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