Author: Günther, 1867

Buenia jeffreysii Günther, 1867

Diagnosis: see genus. Dl Vl (V-VI); D2 I + 8-10; A I + 7-8; P 18. Scales in lateral series 25-30; second ray of first dorsal fin elongate in males. Vertebrae 30. Colour: body with coarse dark reticulation, flecked rusty red; pale dorsal saddles opposite large dark blotches on lateral midline. Size: to 6 cm.

Habitat: usually offshore, 5-330 m, on sand, mud, shell debris, gravel, corallines. Food: no data. Reproduction: post-larvae May - September (off Plymouth).

Distribution: eastern Atlantic, from south-west Iceland and Foldenfjord, Norway (64°45´ N) to Brittany and Celtic Sea, excluding southern North Sea. Also recorded from Banyuls, western Mediterranean (Zander, 1982).

Eggs, larvae and young stages. Lebour, 1919: 65, 79, pl. III (fig. 1-2) | Tåning, 1940: 270, fig. 1-2.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Gobioidei
Family Gobiidae
Genus Buenia
Species Buenia jeffreysii

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Buenia jeffreysii (Günther, 1867)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Buenia jeffreysii Günther, 1867

Synonyms:

Gobius jeffreysii Günther, 1867, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3) 20: 290, pl. V (fig. C) (Hebrides, Scotland).
Gobius jeffreysi Günther, in Jeffreys, 1867, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3) 20: 255 (nom. nud.).
Gobius quadrimaculatus: Day, 1880-1884, 1881: 168, pl. LIII (fig. 2) (nec Valenciennes, 1837).
Gobius jeffreysii: Smitt, 1892: 261, fig. 68 Holt & Byrne, 1903b: 55, fig. 4 Duncker, 1928: 139, fig. 12.
Gobius (Coryphopterus) jeffreysii: Smitt, 1900: 554.
Buenia jeffreysii: Iljin, 1930: 51 de Buen, 1930a: 128; 1931b: 51 Wheeler, 1969: 415, fig. 136-137.
Gobius jeffreysi: Andersson, 1942: 83, pl. opp. 84; 1954: 84, pl. opp. 86 Saemundsson, 1949: 37, 140.


Common name:

jeffrey's goby [En]
jeffreys smörbult [Sv]

Buen, F. de 1930a. Sur une collection de Gobiinae provenant du Maroc. Essai de synopsis des espèces de l'Europe. Bull. Soc. Sci. nat. phys., Maroc, 10: pp. 120-147.

Buen, F. de 1931b. Notas a la familia Gobiidae. Observaciones sobre algunos generos y sinopsis de las especies ibéricas. Notas Resúm. Inst. esp. Oceanogr., 2 (54): 76 pp.

Day, F. 1880-1884. The Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland. London-Edinburgh, 2 vol., cxii+336 pp., 5 +7 fig., 92 pl. and 388 pp., 87 pl. 1880: 1(1): pp. 1-64, pl. I-XXVII; 1881: 1(2) (3): pp. 65-240, pl. XXVIII-LXVIII; 1882: 1(4): pp. 241-336, pl. LXIX-XCII; 2 (5): pp. 1-96, pl. XCIII-CXVI; 1883: 2 (6): pp. 97-176, pl. CXVII-CXXXII; 2 (7): pp. 177-272, pl. CXXXIII-CXLVIII; 1884: 2 (8): pp. 273-368, pl. CXLIX-CLXXIX.

Duncker, G. 1928. Teleostei Physoclisti. 9. Gobiiformes. In: G. Grimpe & E. Wagler, Die Tierwelt der Nord- und Ostsee, 12 (12): g121-g147, 16 fig.

Günther, A. 1867. Additions to the British fauna. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (3) 20: pp. 288-291, pl. V.

Holt, E. W. L.; Byrne, L. W. 1903b. The British and Irish gobies. Rep. Sea. inld. Fish. Ire., 1901, 2: pp. 37-66.

Iljin, B. S. 1930. Le système des Gobiidés. Trab. Inst. esp. Oceanogr., Madrid, (2): 63 pp., 48 fig.

Lebour, M. V. 1919. The young of the Gobiidae from the neighbourhood of Plymouth. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K, 12: pp. 48-80.

Smitt, F. A. 1899. Preliminary notes on the arrangement of the genus Gobius, with an enumeration of its European species. Öfvers. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., 1899, 56 (6): pp. 543-555.

Tåning, Å. V. 1940. Island-Faerø-Omraadets Kutlinger (Gobiidae). Vidensk. Meddr dansk naturh. Foren., 104: pp. 267-282.

Wheeler, A. 1969. The Fishes of the British Isles and North-West Europe. Macmillan, London, Melbourne and Toronto: pp. i-xvii+1-163, 5+177 fig., +392 fig. (princ. sp.)+ 92 n. num. fig., 16 pl., maps.

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