ANIMAL SPECIES:Antitropical Shrimpgoby, Amblyeleotris ogasawarensis (Yanagisawa 1978)
The Antitropical Shrimpgoby is a small fish that lives in a burrow with a snapping shrimp. The common name of the Antitropical Shrimpgoby refers to the distribution of the species.
Identification
The Antitropical Shrimpgoby is cream to white with five deep red bars on the body. The first bar, which crosses the operculum, contains a red-brown spot. The second bar ends dorsally in a semicircular spot at the base of the first dorsal fin.
There is a dusky bar between the eye and the mouth. The head has scattered blue and red spots. The caudal fin is marked with a deep reddish arc, and the pale spaces between the body bars contain blue spots.
Size range
The species grows to 11 cm in length.Distribution
The common name of the Antitropical Shrimpgoby refers to the distribution of the species. It is known from the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands in southern Japan and from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland to northern New South Wales in Australia. It is not recorded from the tropical waters in between.
Distribution by collection data
Biomaps map of Antitropical Shrimpgoby specimens in the Australian Museum collection.
Habitat
It lives in a burrow with a snapping shrimp, often Alpheus bellulus.
Classification
- Species:
- ogasawarensis
- Genus:
- Amblyeleotris
- Family:
- Gobiidae
- Order:
- Perciformes
- Class:
- Actinopterygii
- Subphylum:
- Vertebrata
- Phylum:
- Chordata
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
References
- Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific. Indonesia and adjacent Waters. Penerbit PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama. Pp. 314.
- Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & R.C. Steene. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Crawford House Press. Pp. 557.
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An Antitropical Shrimpgoby at North Solitary Island View full size
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