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Related FAQs: True Gobies, Gobies
2, Goby Identification,
Goby Behavior, Goby Selection, Goby Compatibility, Goby Feeding, Goby Systems, Goby Disease, Goby Reproduction, Amblygobius Gobies,
Clown Gobies, Neon Gobies, Genus Coryphopterus Gobies, Catalina Gobies, Mudskippers, Shrimp Gobies, Sifter Gobies,
Related Articles: Amblygobius Gobies, Genus Gobiodon Gobies, Genus Coryphopterus,
Neon/Cleaner Gobies, Shrimp/Watchman Gobies, Sifter/Sleeper Gobies/Valenciennea,
Sleeper Gobies/Eleotridae, Mudskippers, Dartfishes (family Microdesmidae, subfamily
Ptereleotrinae), Fresh to Brackish Water
Gobioids, Gobioids, and
the similar-appearing Blennioids,
"True"
or Combtooth Gobies, the Family Gobiidae, Part
4
Part 1,
Part 2, Part 3, Part
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Genus Lythrypnus; pretty, but most cool to cold
water: Eighteen species
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Lythrypnus dalli (Gilbert
1860), The Blue-Banded or Catalina Goby: This brilliant red and blue beauty is from off the two California's
Pacific coasts. It is not tropical, and will only live a short while in
water in the upper seventies, eighties. It should not be sold as a
warm-water organism. Why do I, should I mention this? It is an
embarrassing sham in the trade, and a waste of resources. This one at
SIO Aq. in San Diego, CA.
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Lythrypnus gilberti (Heller
& Snodgrass 1803), The Galapagos Blue-Banded or Goby:
Endemic. To 4.5 cm. (about 1.75 in.) in length.
Feeds on small crustaceans. Feisty, territorial with its own
kind. Galapagos pic.
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Genus Pleurosicya: Tiny host gobies
| Pleurosicya micheli Formanoir 1971,
Michel's Host Goby. A transparent species with an internal red
striped on top of its vertebral column. To one inch in length.
Indo-Pacific. This one in Hawai'i perched on a Porites
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| Pleurosicya spongicola Larson 1990. Western
Pacific; Indonesia. Found associate with, on sponges. N. Sulawesi
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| Pleurosicya sp. Found associate with, on
sponges. S. Sulawesi pix. |
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Genus Signigobius:
| Signigobius
biocellatus Hoese & Allen 1977, Twinspot, Crab-eye Goby. To 10 cm. W.
Pacific. S. Leyte, P.I. |
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Genus Stonogobiops:
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Yoshino & Shimada, 2001, Yasha Goby. Western Pacific. To 4.7 cm. House of
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