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Hoese's Goby

Koumansetta hoesei

Also known as: Hoese's Reef Goby, Nano Goby, Red Sea Goby, Red Sea Nano Goby, Reef Goby

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2025
Adult
@JarJar · Middle Garden, Egypt · April 20151 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, or in small, loose schools, hovering a short distance above the substrate, in lagoons and seaward reefs.
Western Indian Ocean - Red Sea to Inner Gulf of Aden

This goby does not seem to use a burrow maybe hiding in corals for protection.
Reef Gobies have the largest and smallest species usually with very distinctive colouring.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Western Indian Ocean
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Found singly, or in small, loose schools, hovering a short distance above the substrate, in lagoons and seaward reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderGobiiformes
    5. familyGobiidae
    6. genusKoumansetta
    7. speciesKoumansetta hoesei Kovačić, Bogorodsky, Mal & Alpermann, 2018

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    More in the family

    Gobies (Gobiidae)