Rhinogobiops

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 270736ITIS 636588key worms:270736

2026-08-05: itis_id 636588 via WoRMS external link

Rhinogobiops is a genus of true gobies in the family Gobiidae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species, Rhinogobiops nicholsii, also known as the blackeye goby, bluespot goby, and crested goby.W CalCOFI holds 1,406 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1959 and 2023.R

1,406
observations: 1,406
records: 1959–2023
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Chad King / MBNMS · Public domain · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:270736")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 1 taxon

sp Rhinogobiops nicholsii Blackeye goby1,406

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Gobiinae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · tmccraney · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Gobiidae · source
Photo · Chad King / MBNMS · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Rhinogobiops” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372049090

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

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