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Storthynx Dwarfgoby

Eviota storthynx

Also known as: Belly-spotted Pygmygoby, Gudgeon, Pygmy Goby, Reef Goby, Rosy Eviota, Storthynx Pygmygoby

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2024
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Adult
@perigor2000 · Tropic Dancer, Palau · December 20131 / 1
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Overview

Found singly on eelgrass patches and rocky areas over coral flats, mangroves and shallow coastal reefs rich in algae growth.

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

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How to identify

COLOURS
Pattern
blotchesspotsstripes
Behaviour
solitary

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific
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Found singly on eelgrass patches and rocky areas over coral flats, mangroves and shallow coastal reefs rich in algae growth.

RANGE
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1 comment

  • fishx6Top Contributor· 28 Feb 2014

    Your fish as been renamed, thanks to Dr Greenfield, check it out in your gallery!

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Taxonomy

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classTeleostei
  4. orderGobiiformes
  5. familyGobiidae
  6. genusEviota
  7. speciesEviota storthynx (Rofen, 1959)

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