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title: "Rock Goby"
description: "Gobius paganellus — Fish. The rock goby (Gobius paganellus) is a small coastal goby of eastern Atlantic waters, from Scotland to Senegal."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/rock-goby
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Rock Goby

> Gobius paganellus — Fish. The rock goby (Gobius paganellus) is a small coastal goby of eastern Atlantic waters, from Scotland to Senegal.

- Scientific name: *Gobius paganellus*
- Category: `fish` (Fish)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 2818
- Wikidata: [Q1907084](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1907084)
- iNaturalist taxon: [118706](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/118706)

## Names

- en: Rock Goby
- de: Felsengrundel
- es: Gobio de Roca
- fr: Gobie paganel
- pl: Babka skalna

## Countries with the most observations

ES (699), FR (658), PT (296), GB (269), IT (168), GR (108), HR (86), JE (31), IE (22), TR (17), IL (16), MT (13)

## Summary

The rock goby (Gobius paganellus) is a small coastal goby of eastern Atlantic waters, from Scotland to Senegal. It is also reported from the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and is an anti-Lessepsian migrant in the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. There are unconfirmed records from the area around Pointe Noire in Congo-Brazzaville.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_goby

## Photo

![Rock Goby](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/rock-goby/medium.jpg)

Photo: Acrocephalus · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202387891

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/rock-goby?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).