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Etymology: Zebrus: Derived from Zebra = African horse, referring to the stripes (Ref. 45335); pallaoroi: Named for Armin Pallaoro, Institute of Oceanography and Fishery Split, Croatia.
Eponymy: Armin Pallaoro (1955–2020) was a Croatian ichthyologist who was a scientific adviser to the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries in Split. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 0 - 1 m (Ref. 124191). Subtropical
Mediterranean Sea: southern part of the Adriatic Sea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 3.2 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 124191); 2.6 cm SL (female)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 8 - 9; Vertebrae: 27. This species is distinguished from Z. zebrus by the following characters: snout longer than eye, its length 1.1-1.2 of eye diameter; posterior nostril is a short tube, about 0.8-0.9 of anterior nostril; eyes is moderately small, eye diameter 4.3-4.7 in head length; left and right ventrolateral head ridges transversally connected on the anterior part by short transversal ridge; anterior membrane in midline depth about 2/3 of spinous ray; head canal pores large, pore ? diameter about half of the distance between pore ? and ?1; ( suborbital sensory papillae
row 5i going downwards to or near the level of row d, distance between row 5i and row d absent or much smaller than length of row 5i; body with 10-11 vertical dark brown bands present along lateral side, first in front of the first dorsal fin, last at end of the second dorsal fin, at upper edge about equal or narrower than pale interspaces in between (Ref. 124191).
Found between gravel and small boulders in very shallow infralittoral waters, just by the shore, at a maximum depth of 1 m; a typical cryptobenthic fish (Ref. 124191).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Kovačić, M., R. Sanda, K. Čekovská, T. Soukupová and J. Vukić, 2021. Zebrus pallaoroi sp. nov.: a new species of goby (Actinopterygii: Gobiidae) from the Mediterranean Sea with a dna-based phylogenetic analysis of the Gobius-lineage. Contributions to Zoology Advance article: 1-33. (Ref. 124191)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00724 (0.00339 - 0.01546), b=3.10 (2.92 - 3.28), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.1 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
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