Amblyeleotris

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Amblyeleotris
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Amblyeleotris diagonalis
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Amblyeleotris guttata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Amblyeleotris
Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Eleotris periophthalmus
Bleeker, 1853

Amblyeleotris is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae found throughout the Indo-Pacific region. This is the largest genus of the shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, so-called because of their symbiotic relationship with certain alpheid shrimps. The shrimp excavates and maintains a burrow used by both animals while the goby, which has far superior eyesight, acts as a lookout for predators. The shrimp maintains almost constant contact with the fish with an antenna. Fossil Amblyeleotris otoliths have been found together with alpheid shrimp remnants from as early as late early Miocene (Burdigalian) suggesting a possible mutualistic association since then. [1]

The species of Amblyeleotris vary considerably in size from less than 30 mm to almost 200 mm standard length. [2]

Species

There are currently 39 recognized species in this genus:

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Amblyeleotris marquesas is a species of goby only recorded from reefs around Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia in the central Pacific Ocean at depths of 20 to 25 metres. As with other species of their genus, this species has a symbiotic relationship with alpheid shrimps, in this case Alpheus randalli, one or a pair of gobies sharing a burrow with one or a pair of shrimps.

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<i>Alpheus randalli</i> Species of crustacean

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<i>Stonogobiops</i> Genus of fishes

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<i>Fibramia</i> Genus of fishes

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References

  1. 1 2 Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9. S2CID   249184395.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Amblyeleotris in FishBase . January 2016 version.
  3. Prokofiev, A.M. (2016): New Species of Amblyeleotris (Gobiidae) from Phan Thiet Bay (South China Sea, Vietnam). Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (3): 467-469.
  4. Jaafar, Z. & Randall, J.E. (2009): A pictorial review and key to the shrimp gobies of the genus Amblyeleotris of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. Smithiana Bulletin, 10: 23-29.