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Eastern Gobbleguts
Vincentia novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1823)

An Eastern Gobbleguts mouth brooding its eggs at a depth of 5m, Fly Point, Port Stephens, February 2002. View larger image.

An Eastern Gobbleguts at a depth of 10m, Fly Point, Port Stephens, New South Wales, April 1999. View larger image.

The Eastern Gobbleguts has a large oblique mouth and two separate dorsal fins.

It is brown with pale to dark speckles.

This species grows to 10cm in length.

It occurs in sheltered marine waters from southern Queensland to central New South Wales.

View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.