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Updated 4/4/2020

Family Gobiidae

INDO-PACIFIC

Amblyeleotris wheeleri

Wakatobi, Indonesia, 50 feet

 



Banda Naira, Indonesia, 20 feet


Blue Corner, Palau, 50 feet

GORGEOUS SHRIMPGOBY

Common in coarse sand at scuba depths.  Inhabits burrows with the commensal shrimp Alpheus.  Broad red bands with blue flecks and narrower white or yellow bars.    Amblyeleotris fasciata has narrow red bars and yellow-orange spots on white interspaces.  Attains 3.5 inches.  Red Sea to Japan, Micronesia, and Fiji.