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Also known as white-spotted goby, brown-barred goby, bullet goby; scientific name amblygobius phalaena. Maximum length: 5.9 inches Wild habitat: East Indian Ocean, Australia, Indonesia, East ...
Elacatinus evelynae, commonly known as the sharknose goby, Caribbean cleaner goby, or Caribbean cleaning goby, is a species of goby native to the Western Atlantic Ocean from the Bahamas and the Lesser Antilles to the northern coast of South America, as well as the Antilles and western Caribbean.
An example of an obligate cleaner is the shark nose goby (Elacatinus evelynae) in the Caribbean Reef, where it has been observed to perform up to 110 cleanings per day. [1] Client Mulloidichthys flavolineatus at a cleaning station.
Elacatinus puncticulatus is a member of the family Gobiidae, which is broken up into two genera: Elacatinus and Gobiosoma. Elacatinus is a genus of goby fish comprising 25 species with characteristic 7 spines, 28 vertebrae, compressed skull shape, and transparent fins.
Trimma tevegae, commonly known as the bluestripe pygmygoby or blue-striped cave goby among other names, is a species of goby from the western Pacific.They are small fish, averaging at 2 cm (0.79 in), orange-brown with white undersides in life, with characteristic iridescent blue or lavender stripes on the sides and on top of the body.
The green banded goby is popular with aquarists and is generally considered to be reef safe.It is especially suited to nano reef tanks because of its small size.. Because of territorial issues with their own kind in the small confines of a tank, they are best kept singly or as a breeding pair.
Sueviota aethon, the grumpy dwarfgoby, is a species of goby endemic to the Red Sea, and can grow to 17 millimetres (0.67 in) in length. It is closely related to members of the Eviota genus , possessing many similar characteristics such as morphology , ecology , and distribution .
The promethean goby (Varicus prometheus) [1] is a mesophotic species of reef goby native to the Caribbean Sea, more specifically Half Moon Bay, Roatan, which is its type locality. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first specimen of the species was a female collected among a small group of algae of the genus Halimeda .