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Sagamia

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Sagamia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Subfamily: Gobionellinae
Genus: Sagamia
Jordan & Snyder, 1901
Species:
S. geneionema
Binomial name
Sagamia geneionema
(Hilgendorf, 1879)
Synonyms[1][2]

Genus synonymy

  • Ainosus Jordan & Snyder, 1901

Species synonymy

  • Chaeturichthys tanakae Schmidt, 1931
  • Gobius geneionema Hilgendorf, 1879

Sagamia is a genus of fishes in the subfamily, Gobionellinae. Its only species is Sagamia geneionema. It is native to the coastal waters of Japan and Korea, where it lives near shore in areas with sandy substrates. The species grows to a length of 7.1 centimetres (2.8 in) SL.[3]

This is an annual species; the adults spawn in January through March, and then nearly all of them die and are replaced by the larvae of the next generation by the following June. The diet of juveniles and adults is largely made up of amphipods. The larvae are prey for other fish such as the sunrise (Pseudoblennius percoides), a species of sculpin.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Sagamia . Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 2 October 2024.
  2. ^ "Sagamia geneionema". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  3. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sagamia geneionema". FishBase. June 2013 version.
  4. ^ Sano, M. (1998). Is recruitment of the temperate sand goby, Sagamia geneionema, affected by habitat patch characteristics? Ichthyological Research 45(1), 13-18.