Sicydium brevifile explained

Sicydium brevifile is a species of goby from the subfamily Sicydiinae. It is an amphidromous endemic in western Cameroon and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea where the adults inhabit the clearwater streams of the volcanic islands and on the slopes of Mount Cameroon, having ascended from the sea as larvae. Specimens are imported into the Aquarium trade from Cameroon.^[1] The specific name means "short thread", Latin brevis and filum, probably a reference to the "small median papilla above the maxillary suture".^[2]

Notes and References

1. Frank L. Pezold . Tomio Iwamoto . Ian James Harrison. amp . 2006 . The California Academy of Sciences Gulf of Guinea Expedition (2001) V. Multivariate Analysis of Sicydiines of São Tomé & Príncipe with Redescription of Sicydium brevifile and S. bustamantei (Teleostei: Gobiidae) and a Key to West African Sicydiines . Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences . Fourth Series . 57 . 34 . 965–980.
2. Web site: Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (p-z) . 13 August 2018 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 24 July 2018.