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Couch's goby
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Gobius
Species:	G. couchi
Binomial name
Gobius couchi P. J. Miller & El-Tawil, 1974

Couch's goby (Gobius couchi) is a species of goby native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean as far north as southern Great Britain and Ireland, the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic Sea where it can be found living under stones on muddy sand in inshore waters and in the intertidal zone. This species can reach a length of 7.7 centimetres (3.0 in) TL. The specific name and common name both honour Jonathan Couch (1789–1870), the Cornish ichthyologist and the author of A History of the Fishes of the British Islands published between 1862 and 1867.

References

1. ^ Herler, J.; Williams, J.T. & Kovacic, M. (2014). "Gobius couchi". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T198659A45104510. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T198659A45104510.en.
2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Gobius couchi". FishBase. June 2013 version.
3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (d-h)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 1 September 2018.

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