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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 ...
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.
The spikefin goby is found throughout the western Pacific Ocean, as well as in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. It is a benthic fish that inhabits crevices and pockets in coral reefs between 2 and 50 meters in depth along the reef rock, rubble, and sand. [2] [3] [4] It is reclusive and is not associated with burrows or prawns. [5]
The blackeye goby is the only species recognised in the genus Rhinogobiops.It is a true goby, being classified in the subfamily Gobiinae. [2]The species was first described in 1882 by the American ichthyologist Tarleton Hoffman Bean from a specimen from Departure Bay, British Columbia, recovered in 1881 by the American survey vessel Hassler.
Gobiidae or gobies is a family of bony fish in the order Gobiiformes, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera. [1] Most of gobiid fish are relatively small, typically less than 10 cm (3.9 in) in length, and the family includes some of the smallest vertebrates in the world, such as Trimmatom nanus and Pandaka pygmaea, Trimmatom nanus are under ...
The yellow clown goby, Gobiodon okinawae, also known as the Okinawa goby or yellow coral goby, is a member of the goby family native to the western Pacific from southern Japan to the southern reaches of the Great Barrier Reef. As the name implies, they are bright yellow in color, save for a whitish patch on each cheek.
Eviota sigillata, commonly called seven-figure pygmy goby or adorned dwarfgoby, is a species of marine fish in the family Gobiidae. They are widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific area, from the Seychelles to the Micronesia. [2] It inhabits reef habitats at depths from 3 to 20 m (9.8–65.6 ft). [3]
These life history choice are made based on the amount of interspecific competition from other obligate cleaners in the area. [19] 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]