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The black-ray goby lives on sandy seabeds.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Black-ray goby
- Scientific name
- Stonogobiops nematodes
- Japanese name
- ヒレナガネジリンボウ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Stonogobiops
A goby that lives from the Pacific side of Japan and the Ryukyu Islands to the Philippines and Borneo.
A spine of its dorsal fin stretches out long like a thread, which tells it apart from the similar nejirinbou goby.
Basic data
- Range
- Miyakejima, Ryukyu Islands, Philippine Islands, Bali to Flores, and Borneo, and elsewhere
Where the Black-ray 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
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
- ヒレナガネジリンボウ
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bekut ulir-coklat
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヒレナガネジリンボウChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ヒレナガネジリンボウChecked: 2026-11-07
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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