''Amblyeleotris harrisorum'' is a species of
goby currently only recorded from
reefs around the island of
Kiritimati
Kiritimati (also known as Christmas Island) is a Pacific Ocean atoll in the northern Line Islands. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati. The name is derived from the English word "Christmas" written in Gilbertese according to its phonology, ...
in the
Line Islands
The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands (in Gilbertese, ''Aono Raina'') are a chain of 11 atolls (with partly or fully enclosed lagoons) and coral islands (with a surrounding reef) in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawa ...
, Republic of
Kiribati
Kiribati (), officially the Republic of Kiribati ( gil, ibaberikiKiribati),[Kiribati]
''The Wor ...
, in the central
Pacific at a depth of around . As with other ''Amblyeleotris'' species, it has a
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
alpheid shrimps.
[Mohlmann, M. S. & Randall, J. E. (2002):]
Three new species of gobiid fishes of the genus ''Amblyeleotris'' from the central and western Pacific
''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 50(1): 215-226.''
This is an elongated goby up to
standard length
Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.
Overall length
* Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...
. The background colour is white marked with five vertical pale orange bars. It is most readily distinguished from its congeners by its very colourful
caudal fin
Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as se ...
, bright yellow with orange and blue margin and also by an oblique yellow stripe behind the eye.
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References
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Photograph
harrisorum
Fish described in 2002
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