Sand-canyon Goby

Coryphopterus venezuelae

Fishstrong against mammals, arachnids

Rare

School

While active with another fish in play, a fish on your bench absorbs up to 9 of the damage this card takes, without being knocked out (18 with two others).

Coryphopterus venezuelae

Photo: © Dan Schofield (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped

In battle

Strong against

Mammals
Arachnids

Weak against

Birds
Insects

Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.

The species

Coryphopterus venezuelae is a species of goby found in the western Atlantic Ocean from Belize to Panama, the north coast of South America, Curaçao, Venezuela. It is also found in the Bahamas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saba, and Brazil.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Coryphopterus venezuelae, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.

Observations: 257 on iNaturalist
Adult mass: 4.2 g

Wikipedia iNaturalist

Where its stats come from130 points, the Rare budget

Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:

HP 39
ATK 36
DEF 55

How they’re shared out:

Type: Fish: HP 33, ATK 30 and DEF 37 out of 100 to start.
Popularity: 257 observations on iNaturalist: the better known a species is, the more HP it has.