Sagamia is a genus of fishes in the subfamily, Gobionellinae. Its only species is Sagamia geneionema. It is native to the coastal waters of Japan and Korea, where it lives near shore in areas with sandy substrates. The species grows to a length of 7.1 centimetres (2.8 in) SL.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Subfamily: | Gobionellinae |
| Genus: | Sagamia Jordan & Snyder, 1901 |
| Species: | S. geneionema
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| Sagamia geneionema (Hilgendorf, 1879)
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This is an annual species; the adults spawn in January through March, and then nearly all of them die and are replaced by the larvae of the next generation by the following June. The diet of juveniles and adults is largely made up of amphipods. The larvae are prey for other fish such as the sunrise (Pseudoblennius percoides), a species of sculpin.[4]
References
edit- ^ Sagamia . Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 2 October 2024.
- ^ "Sagamia geneionema". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Sagamia geneionema". FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Sano, M. (1998). Is recruitment of the temperate sand goby, Sagamia geneionema, affected by habitat patch characteristics? Ichthyological Research 45(1), 13-18.
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