Object number: PMR-05035

Object catalogue no.: 642

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In the Natural History Museum Rijeka there are types (one holotype and 10 paratypes) based on which the species Gobius kolombatovici Kovacic & Miller, 2000 has been described (catalogue numbers 642, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640, 641). Yet another paratype of this species is being held in the Natural History Museum in London. Description of this new fish species was published by Marcelo Kovacic and Peter James Miller in 2000 in the magazine „Cybium“of the French Ichthyological Society. Newly described fish species was named Gobius kolombatovici in honor of our prominent natural historian, Professor Juraj Kolombatovic (1843-1908). In the research of fishes, he represents a significant name in European dimensions. As for his work, the most notable one is a paper on goby fishes from the Split area from 1891, in which, among other information, he describes 6 new species and subspecies of this family. Specimens which were collected by Kolombatovic and stored in the Natural History Museum in Vienna have been used in numerous papers of European ichthyologists in the past 100 years. Kolombatovic’s Goby, Gobius kolombatovici, is 10-12 cm big fish, belonging to the Gobiidae family. It has a characteristic coloring, longitudinally arranged big orange speckles with black spot on the first back fin. So far, it was found on only four localities during 1998 near the eastern coast of the island of Krk. It lives in the depths of 15 to 38 m, on the river bottoms consisting of detritus sand and fine gravel and stones, usually near the base of steep underwater cliffs. Biology of this species is still widely unknown, as it is the case for the most rarely collected species of Mediterranean gobies, most of which were described as early as the 19th century. This species belongs to the Gobiidae family, one of the three most numerous fish families, as far as the number of species is concerned. So far, approximately 2 000 species of this family has been recorded, while the number of described ones is constantly increasing. Generally, they live in sea or brackish waters, less often in freshwaters. They usually live on littoral beds in warm and moderately warm seas, a small number of species ventures in deeper or colder sees. Gobies are small fishes, and a few of the tropical species are one of the world smallest fishes or even smallest vertebrates.

Specimen status: holotype

Collection method: field collection

Collector: Marcelo Kovačić

Collection place: Kamenjak

Collection date: 18.09.1998.

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Authority: Marcelo Kovačić