Author: Schliewen, Kovačić & Ordines, 2019
FBname: Patzner's goby
Comments: Specimens were collected from a <i>Peyssonnelia</i> bed off the southern coast of Menorca (mainly <i>Peyssonnelia inamoena</i>), also with some presence of rhodolith forming species such as the coralline algae <i>Lithothamnion valens</i> and <i>Spongites fruticulosus</i>. The holotype was collected from a rhodolith bed in the Menorca Channel, with dominance of coralline red algae species, mainly <i>L. valens</i>, unidentified crustose coralline algae and <i>S. fruticulosus</i>. In the three sampling stations, the specimens were also accompanied by a large diversity of benthic animals (both sessile and mobile) with most abundant species including the decapods crustaceans <i>Inachus dorsettensis, Inachus thoracicus</i> and <i>Pagurus prideaux</i>; teleost fish <i>Buenia massutii, Odondebuenia balearica, Diplecogaster bimaculate</i> and <i>Serranus hepatus</i>; echinoderms <i>Sphaerechinus granularis, Ophiura albida</i> and <i>Echinaster sepositus</i>; annelids <i>Hyalinoecia tubicola</i> and <i>Laetmonice hystrix</i>; ascidians <i>Aplidium nordmanni, Ciona</i> spp. and <i>Ascidia mentula</i>; and, several unidentified sponge species (Ref. 121603).