Twinspot goby
Amazing fact
The twinspot goby sifts tiny sand-dwelling invertebrates from mouthfuls of sand.
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The twinspot goby sifts tiny sand-dwelling invertebrates from mouthfuls of sand.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Twinspot goby
- Scientific name
- Signigobius biocellatus
- Japanese name
- カニハゼ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Signigobius
Where the name “Twinspot goby” comes from
Its genus name combines a Latin word meaning mark with the name of a fish genus.
Museums VictoriaIt lives in the western Pacific, in shallow lagoons and on the sandy sea floor around them.
It got its Japanese name, "crab goby", because the markings on its dorsal fins look like a crab's eyes.
How the Twinspot goby lives
It also lives on silty or rubble bottoms around coral.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Western Pacific
Where the Twinspot 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
- カニハゼ
- Français
- Gobie à deux ocelles
- Deutsch
- Krabbenaugen-Grundel
- Português (Brasil)
- Góbio-biocelado
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bekut totol-dua
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 — カニハゼChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria — Crab-eye Goby, Signigobius biocellatus Hoese & Allen 1977Checked: 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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