Eviota melasma

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Eviota melasma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Eviota
Species:
E. melasma
Binomial name
Eviota melasma
Lachner & Karnella, 1980

Eviota melasma, commonly called headspot eviota or melasma pygmy goby among various other vernacular names, is a species of marine fish in the family Gobiidae. [2]

The headspot eviota has been documented only in Australia; records of the fish elsewhere are thought to be misidentifications. [3] The fish is found on offshore reefs and coastal reefs, [4] just below the tidal zone. [5]

The headspot eviota is a small-sized fish, growing up to 30 millimetres (1.2 in) length. [6] It is a semi-transparent pygmy goby marked with irregular rufous internal bars along the length of its body, with a black spot above the opening of the gills, irregular reddish blotches on its nape, and three reddish blotches which are separated by whitish barring on the belly. It also has a thin white stripe at the base of the pectoral fin. [4]

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References

  1. Greenfield, D.; Larson, H. & Williams, J.T. (2016). "Eviota melasma". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T193237A2212856. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T193237A2212856.en .
  2. "Common Names List - Eviota melasma".
  3. David W. Greenfield; Richard Winterbottom (2016). "A key to the dwarfgoby species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota) described between 1871 and 2016" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 24: 35–90.
  4. 1 2 Bray, D.J. (2016). "Eviota melasma". Fishes of Australia. Museums Victoria. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  5. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Eviota melasma". FishBase . June 2018 version.
  6. Kuiter, R.H. and T. Tonozuka, 2001. Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 3. Jawfishes - Sunfishes, Opistognathidae - Molidae. Zoonetics, Australia. p. 623-893.