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Mudskipper/Boddart's goggle-eyed goby

Boleophthalmus cf boddarti

Description:

Mudskippers can live not just in water but on moist soil too. These were almost the same colour of the alluvial soil on which they lived (Local fishermen wading through this silt to reach land when the tide was out had legs the same colour; and I could not identify a snake because of the caked mud on its body). This mudskipper has a yellow dorsal fin (that is why I could guess it species epithet) and dots on its body. Rather bulbous eyes too.

Habitat:

Inter-tidal zone of River Matla as it empties into the Bay of Bengal. This is Sunderbans area and full of mangrove vegetation. The pneumatophores can be seen in the last shot which is the habitat shot. When the tide is out, the fertile alluvium can be seen; it is deep enough to reach just below the knee (calf-deep). These mudskippers frolic on the silty soil accompanied by shells, mudcrabs and fiddler crabs. These mudskippers have burrows into which they retreat if they feel threatened.

Notes:

https://www.ecologyasia.com/verts/fishes... Turrets: https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/20...

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SukanyaDatta
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SukanyaDatta

West Bengal, India

Spotted on Aug 26, 2022
Submitted on Aug 31, 2022

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