My buddy picked this up for free at a pet store chain because they didnt know what it was. It has grown over an inch in about a month(about 2.5" now). Any ideas? some kind of goby? Thanks
I went through this with my "Jade Goby" that isn't quite a Jade Goby. I haven't seen a sloppier taxonomic mess since terrestrial snails. Pictures are mislabeled, people entirely convinced that THEIR blahblah gudgoen is the genuine one and the others are wrong entirely. I actually gave up after a week of solidly pursuing an ID. I hope your search is a simpler one.
If by mogurnda sand goby you mean mogurnda mogurnda, I'd disagree. The google search I did for 'mogurnda sand goby' brought up marbled sleepers, d. maculatus and other random gobies/gudgeons. And I've raised a mogurnda mogurnda, it's shape was more torpedo-like than tall.
Looks like a violet goby, emperor gudgeon, etc more than any mugurnda.
Is there an actual species that 'mugurnda sand goby' applies to or are most unidentified specimens just called that?