Mudskipper

Mudskipper
Mudskippers in The Gambia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Oxudercidae
Subfamily:	Oxudercinae Gunther 1861[1]

Mudskippers are a type of fish. They are part of a fish family known as the gobies.^[2] They are amphibious fish: they can use their pectoral fins to "walk" on land.^[3][4] They are adapted to intertidal habitats. These are places where the tide of the ocean comes in and out. Most fish that live in these habitats hide under wet seaweed or in tidal pools to stay moist or wet when the tide goes out.^[5] Mudskippers are active when they are out of the water. They eat and interact with each other. They defend their territories.

Mudskippers are found in places that are tropical, subtropical and temperate. They live near the shores of in the Indo-Pacific and the Atlantic coast of Africa.

1. ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1. PMID 25543675.
2. ↑ Murdy E.O. (1989). "A Taxonomic Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Oxudercine Gobies (Gobiidae: Oxudercinae)". Records of the Australian Museum. Suppl. N°11: 1–93.
3. ↑ Swanson, B.O, and Gibb A.C. Kinematics of aquatic and terrestrial escape responses in mudskippers. Archived 2020-05-09 at the Wayback Machine The Journal of Experimental Biology. Vol. 207, 4037-4044. October 21, 2004. Accessed 2009-05-25.
4. ↑ Cite error: The named reference Harris1960 was used but no text was provided for refs named (see the help page).
5. ↑ Graham J.B., ed. (1997). Air–breathing Fishes. Evolution, diversity and adaptation. San Diego California: Academic Press.