Gobius kolombatovici (Kovačić & Miller, 2000)

Iglésias, Samuel P., Bergot, Patricia, Breton, Pascal, Brunelle, Stéphanie, Camusat, Mathieu, Causse, Romain, Charbonnel, Éric, Chevaldonné, Pierre, Cordier, Yves, Cosquer, Paul, Cuillandre, Jean-Pierre, Curd, Amelia, Dubas, Rémy, Duhau, Muriel, Derrien-Courtel, Sandrine, Devique, Gabriel, Dixneuf, Stéphane, Duhamel, Erwan, Farque, Pierre-André, Francour, Patrice, Fontana, Yann, Gamon, Adelaïde, Gicqueau, Charly, Goascoz, Nicolas, Hassani, Sami, Jadaud, Angélique, Kopp, Dorothée, Lamour, Laure, Bris, Sylvain Le, Lévèque, Laurent, Liger, Pablo, Lorance, Pascal, Louisy, Patrick, Maran, Vincent, Méhault, Sonia, Metral, Luisa, Morin-Repinçay, Alizée, Mouchel, Olivier, Pere, Anthony, Quéro, Jean-Claude, Renoult, Julien P., Roche, François, Schweyer, Livier, Spitz, Jérôme, Thiriet, Pierre & Thomas, Wilfried, 2020, French ichthyological records for 2018, Cybium 44 (4), pp. 285-307 : 300

Gobius kolombatovici (Kovačić & Miller, 2000)

Several Kolombatovic’s goby, Gobiidae ( Fig. 7 H-J), were observed and photographed in 2018 by S. Le Bris and by P. Louisy while scuba diving on 9 and 30 Jun., 21 Jul. and 30 Sep. off Planier Island, on 10 Jun. off Moyade Island, on 1 Nov. at Pierre percée, in the bay of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône, France, Mediterranean Sea) at 35-45 m depth at 43.1979°N, 5.2284°E, at 43.1764°N, 5.3704°E and at 43.2852°N, 5.3059°E, respectively ( Louisy et al., 2019c). They were observed on sand close to the bottom of rock walls covered by coralline algae, occasionally close to isolated rocks or wrecks. The species was locally common. The individuals were roughly 6-8 cm TL. Another Kolombatovic’s goby ( Fig. 6I ), was observed on 17 Jun. 2018 and photographed by Patrice Francour while scuba diving northeast of the Gabinière Island, Port-Cros, Hyères, (Var, France), at 42.9889°N, 6.3975°E, at 51 m depth. It was observed on a soft bottom of maerl and coarse shelly sand, with encrusting coralline red seaweed, Eunicella , bryozoans, simple and colonial ascidians, and Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder, 1845 . The individual was about 7 cm TL ( Francour et al., 2019). This poorly known species is uncommonly recorded by underwater observers.

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Figure 6. – Significant French ichthyological records for 2018 (continued). A: Parablennius pilicornis, ~8 cm TL, 6 May 2018 (reversed photograph); B: Parablennius pilicornis, ~10 cm TL, 7 Jun. 2018; C: Parablennius ruber, ~12 cm TL, 5 Aug. 2018; D: Parablennius ruber, ~8-9 cm TL, 4 Sep. 2018; E: Parablennius ruber, ~9-10 cm TL, 4 Oct. 2018.

Figure 7. – Significant French ichthyo- logical records for 2018 (continued). A: Buenia affinis, ~3 cm TL, 6 Aug. 2018; B: Buenia jeffreysii, 37 and 39 mm TL, 23 Oct. 2018; C: Chromogobius zebratus, ~5 cm TL, 13 Feb. 2018 (reversed photograph); D: Didogobius splechtnai, ~4 cm TL, 9 Jun. 2018 (reversed photograph); E: Gammogobius steinitzi, ~3 cm TL, 9 Jun. 2018; F-G: Gobius couchi, ~6-7 cm TL, 9 Aug. 2018 (reversed photographs); H: Gobius kolombatovici, ~6 cm TL, 1 Nov. 2018; I: G. kolombatovici, ~6 cm TL, 9 Jun. 218; J: G. kolombatovici, ~7 cm TL, 17 Jun. 2018 (reversed photograph).