WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Gobius spence Smith, 1947) Smith, J. L. B. (1947). New species and new records of fishes from South Africa. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 11).</em> v. 13 (no. 108) (art. 77): 793-821. [details]
basis of record
Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. <em>Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.</em> i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [details]
Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Otheradditional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Unreviewed
Description Occurs in turbid coastal areas near river mouths at less than 1 m to at least 12 m. [details]
Remark Date Eschmeyer, pers. comm. [details]
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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