Fish of the Gobius genus of the Gobiinae (true gobies) subfamily of the Gobiidae family of the Gobiiformes order of the Percomorpha clade of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Roule’s goby. Photo by © Xavier Salvador. Fundació Mar. flickr.com/photos/fundaciomar)
Roule‘s goby (Gobius roulei) was first described in 1928 by the Spanish ichthyologist and oceanographer Fernando de Buen y Lozano (1895-1962).
It inhabits at depths of up to 385 meters. It is a deep-sea species. It occurs near a sandy and rocky bottom. The maximum recorded length is 8 cm. It feeds on zooplankton.
(Roule’s goby. Photo by © Roberto Pillon. fishbase.org)
It is a rare species. It dwells off the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of Roule‘s goby (Gobius roulei) in other languages as follows:
Gobio de Roule (Spanish), Ghiozzo di Roulei (Italian), Rule-Grundel (German), Glavoč pješčani (Serbian, Croatian), Gobie de Roule (French).