Gluttonous goby

Amazing fact

The gluttonous goby has small white dots scattered over its dark gray body.

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Gluttonous goby in its habitat (illustration)

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An illustration based on the real animal.

A little discovery to share.

The gluttonous goby has small white dots scattered over its dark gray body.

Source鶴岡市立加茂水族館 — ドロメ

THE REAL WORLD

The real Gluttonous goby

Scientific name: Chaenogobius gulosus
Japanese name: ドロメ
Group: Ocean animals

Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Chaenogobius

Facts about the real animal.

A fish found along the coasts of Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu and in the Seto Inland Sea, and in China's Shandong Province and on the south coast of the Korean Peninsula.

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Its white-tipped tail fin and the lack of rows of black dots on its pectoral fins tell it apart from similar fish.

鳥羽水族館 — ドロメ

How the Gluttonous goby lives

It lives along rocky shores and in pools left behind by the falling tide. When young, it swims in groups near the surface over shallow rocky reefs. As it grows, it comes to live on the seabed.

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Basic data

Range: Sea of Japan and East China Sea coasts, Pacific coast, western Kyushu, Seto Inland Sea, and elsewhere

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Where the Gluttonous goby has been recorded

Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF

Where it livesJapan Asia Coasts

Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.

Names around the world

日本語: ドロメ
简体中文: 大口裸头虾虎鱼
繁體中文: 大口裸頭蝦虎魚
한국어: 별망둑
Português (Brasil): Chasmichthys gulosus
Русский: Белопятнистый хасмихт

Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.

Sources and how we check

We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.

The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.

The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.

This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.

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