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''Amblyeleotris'' is a
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of
fish Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of li ...
in the
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Gobiidae found throughout the
Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...
region. This is the largest genus of the shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, so-called because of their
symbiotic Symbiosis (from Greek , , "living together", from , , "together", and , bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasit ...
relationship with certain alpheid
shrimp Shrimp are crustaceans (a form of shellfish) with elongated bodies and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – most commonly Caridea and Dendrobranchiata of the decapod order, although some crustaceans outside of this order are refer ...
s. 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
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. 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. The
species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of ''Amblyeleotris'' vary considerably in size from less than 30 mm to almost 200 mm
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Species

There are currently 39 recognized species in this genus: * '' Amblyeleotris arcupinna'' Mohlmann & Munday, 1999 (Arc-fin shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris aurora'' ( Polunin & Lubbock, 1977) (Pink-bar prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris bellicauda'' J. E. Randall, 2004 * '' Amblyeleotris biguttata'' J. E. Randall, 2004 (Twin-spot shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris bleekeri'' I. S. Chen, K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 2006 * ''
Amblyeleotris callopareia ''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 shrimp ...
'' Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Beautiful-cheek shrimpgoby) * ''
Amblyeleotris cephalotaenia ''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 shrimp ...
'' ( Y. Ni, 1989) * ''
Amblyeleotris delicatulus ''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 shrimp ...
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J. L. B. Smith James Leonard Brierley Smith (26 September 1897 – 8 January 1968) was a South African ichthyologist, organic chemist, and university professor. He was the first to identify a taxidermied fish as a coelacanth, at the time thought to be long ex ...
, 1958
* ''
Amblyeleotris diagonalis ''Amblyeleotris diagonalis'', the diagonal shrimpgoby, is a species of goby. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean where it can be found on reefs at depths of from . ''Amblyeleotris diagonalis'' is commensal with alp ...
'' Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Diagonal shrimpgoby) * ''
Amblyeleotris downingi ''Amblyeleotris'' is a genus of fish in the family (biology), 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 certai ...
'' J. E. Randall, 1994 (Downing's shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris ellipse'' J. E. Randall, 2004 * '' Amblyeleotris fasciata'' ( Herre, 1953) (Red-banded prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris fontanesii'' (
Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Amblyeleotris guttata ''Amblyeleotris guttata'', the spotted prawn-goby is a species of goby native to reefs of the Western Pacific Ocean, that includes the Philippines to Tonga, north to the Ryukyu Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japa ...
'' ( Fowler, 1938) (Spotted prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris gymnocephala'' (
Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Amblyeleotris harrisorum'' Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002 * '' Amblyeleotris japonica''
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, 1957
* '' Amblyeleotris latifasciata'' Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Wide-barred shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris macronema'' Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Long-spine shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris marquesas'' Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002 * '' Amblyeleotris masuii'' Aonuma &
Yoshino Yoshino may refer to: * Yoshino cherry, another name for ''Prunus × yedoensis'', a flowering cherry tree * Japanese cruiser Yoshino, Japanese cruiser ''Yoshino'', a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy Places * Yoshino, Nara, a town ...
, 1996
(Masui's shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris melanocephala'' Aonuma, Iwata &
Yoshino Yoshino may refer to: * Yoshino cherry, another name for ''Prunus × yedoensis'', a flowering cherry tree * Japanese cruiser Yoshino, Japanese cruiser ''Yoshino'', a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy Places * Yoshino, Nara, a town ...
, 2000
(Black-head shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris memnonia'' Prokofiev, 2016 Prokofiev, A.M. (2016): New Species of ''Amblyeleotris'' (Gobiidae) from Phan Thiet Bay (South China Sea, Vietnam). ''Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (3): 467-469.'' * '' Amblyeleotris morishitai''
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* '' Amblyeleotris neglecta'' Jaafar & J. E. Randall, 2009 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.'' * '' Amblyeleotris neumanni'' J. E. Randall & Earle, 2006 * '' Amblyeleotris novaecaledoniae''
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* '' Amblyeleotris ogasawarensis'' Yanagisawa, 1978 (Red-spotted shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris periophthalma'' (
Bleeker Bleeker is a Dutch occupational surname. Bleeker is an old spelling of ''(linnen)bleker'' ("linen bleacher").Amblyeleotris randalli'' Hoese &
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(Randall's prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris rhyax'' Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Volcano shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata'' Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002 (Red-margin shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris steinitzi'' ( Klausewitz, 1974) (Steinitz' prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris stenotaeniata'' J. E. Randall, 2004 * '' Amblyeleotris sungami'' ( Klausewitz, 1969) (Magnus' prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris taipinensis'' I. S. Chen, K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 2006 * '' Amblyeleotris triguttata'' J. E. Randall, 1994 (Triple-spot shrimpgoby) * '' Amblyeleotris wheeleri'' ( Polunin & Lubbock, 1977) (Gorgeous prawngoby) * '' Amblyeleotris yanoi'' Aonuma &
Yoshino Yoshino may refer to: * Yoshino cherry, another name for ''Prunus × yedoensis'', a flowering cherry tree * Japanese cruiser Yoshino, Japanese cruiser ''Yoshino'', a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy Places * Yoshino, Nara, a town ...
, 1996
(Flag-tail shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris kireedam'' Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith based fossil species)


References

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