Gobiidae

Darwin's mudskipper

Periophthalmus darwini

Fish among Mangrove Roots

• Tropical
• Transcontinental
• Oceania
• Fusiform
• Small
• Tropical fish

Periophthalmus darwini, Darwin's mudskipper, is a relatively newly discovered mudskipper in 2004, so little is known about it. It is a brackish water ray-finned fish found in Australia along mud banks never far from mangrove trees. It is in the goby family Gobiidae.