''Mugilogobius adeia'' is a species of
goby
Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have b ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to
Lake Matano
Lake Matano ( id, Danau Matano), also known as Matana, is a natural lake in East Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. With a depth of , it is the deepest lake in Indonesia (ranked by maximum depth), the 10th deepest lake in the w ...
on the
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
n island of
Sulawesi where it inhabits areas with a number of shells of the
gastropod ''
Tylomelania gemmifera
''Tylomelania gemmifera'' is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae.
Distribution
This species occurs in Malili lakes, Sulawesi, Indonesia. It occurs in one lake; the type ...
'' in which it seeks shelter. This species can reach a length of
TL.
References
adeia
Freshwater fish of Sulawesi
Fish described in 1992
Taxa named by Helen K. Larson
Taxa named by Maurice Kottelat
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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