Blind goby

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| name = blind goby

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| image = Typhlogobius californiensis 169947145.jpg

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| image2 = Juvenile and adult blind goby (Typhlogobius californiensis Steindachner, 1879).jpg

| image2_caption = Heads of juvenile (top) and adult (bottom)

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Tornabene, L. |author2=Robertson, R. |author3=Van Tassell, J. |author4=Domínguez, O. |year=2025 |title=Typhlogobius californiensis |page=e.T241152418A241152420 |doi= |access-date=15 May 2025}}

| genus = Typhlogobius

| species = californiensis

| parent_authority = Steindachner, 1879

| authority = Steindachner, 1879

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| synonyms = * Othonops eos R. Smith, 1881

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The blind goby (Typhlogobius californiensis) is a species of fish in the goby family Oxudercidae, the only species in the genus Typhlogobius. It is native to the coastlines of southern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico, where it commonly inhabits the burrows of shrimp of the genus Callianassa. The adult of the species is completely blind and lacks pigmentation, while the juvenile has rudimentary eyes that help it find the shrimp burrows.{{cite journal|author=H. Ahnelt & G. Scattolin|year=2003|title=The lateral line system of a blind goby, Typhlogobius californiensis Steindachner, 1879 (Teleostei: Gobiidae)|journal=Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien|volume=104|issue=B|pages=11–25|url=http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_104B_0011-0025.pdf}}{{cite journal|author=G. E. MacGinitie|year=1939|title=The Natural History of the blind goby, Typhlogobius californiensis Steindachner|journal=The American Midland Naturalist|volume=21|issue=2|pages=489–505|url=http://biology.fullerton.edu/biol317/im/s08/SanOnofre_5_9_08/MacGinitie_1939_blind_goby_AmMidlNat22.pdf|doi=10.2307/2420551}} This species can reach a length of {{convert|8.3|cm|in}} TL.{{FishBase |genus= Typhlogobius|species= californiensis| month = June | year = 2013}}