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Bony fish

Michel's Ghostgoby

Pleurosicya micheli

Also known as: Cling Goby, Coral Goby, Ghost Goby, Gudgeon, Michel's Goby, Reef Goby, Soft Coralgoby, Stonycoral Ghostgoby

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2016
Adult
@JarJar · Middle Garden, Egypt · April 20151 / 6
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Overview

Found singly, living in a symbiotic relationship with hard corals, and sometimes on the mantle of clams, over coastal reef slopes.
Widespread Indo Pacific

Reef Gobies have the largest and smallest species usually with very distinctive colouring.

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How to identify

Pattern
stripes
Behaviour
solitary

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found singly, living in a symbiotic relationship with hard corals, and sometimes on the mantle of clams, over coastal reef slopes.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderGobiiformes
    5. familyGobiidae
    6. genusPleurosicya
    7. speciesPleurosicya micheli Fourmanoir, 1971

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    More in the family

    Gobies (Gobiidae)