ムツゴロウ

noun

mudskipper; goggle-eyed goby

Refers specifically to the species Boleophthalmus pectinirostris, a mudskipper found in tidal flats. The name is also famously associated with the Japanese zoologist and TV personality Masanori Hata, nicknamed ムツゴロウ.

• 有あり明あけ海かいの干ひ潟がたでムツゴロウが跳はねている。

  Mudskippers are hopping on the tidal flats of the Ariake Sea.

• ムツゴロウは干かん潮ちょう時じに泥どろの上うえでよく見みられる。

  Mudskippers are often seen on the mud at low tide.