A Violet Goby (Gobioides broussonnetii) photographed in captivity, January 2017. This species has an enormous distribution across the Western Atlantic ranging from Charleston, South Carolina southward to Florida, along the Gulf of Mexico coasts of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and eastern-central Texas south along the Caribbean coast of Colombia, eastward to Venezuela, Surinam, Guyana, French Guiana, and Brazil to as far south as Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The species inhabits muddy estuaries and river mouths. It thrives in brackish water. |