''Amblyeleotris marquesas'' is a species of
goby only recorded from
reefs around
Nuku Hiva in the
Marquesas Islands,
French Polynesia
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in the central
Pacific Ocean at depths of . As with other species of their genus, this species has a
symbiotic
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relationship with
alpheid shrimp
Alpheidae is a family of caridean snapping shrimp, characterized by having asymmetrical claws, the larger of which is typically capable of producing a loud snapping sound. Other common names for animals in the group are pistol shrimp or alpheid ...
s, in this case ''
Alpheus randalli
''Alpheus randalli'' is a species of snapping shrimp in the family Alpheidae. It lives in the Marquesas Islands and parts of the Indian Ocean, including the Seychelles, in association with a goby of the genus ''Amblyeleotris''. The shrimp is tr ...
'', one or a pair of gobies sharing a burrow with one or a pair of 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 ...
. It has a highly distinctive colour pattern: The background colour is pale green, white ventrally, marked with four broad vertical brownish red bars interspersed with four narrower, darker bars.
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marquesas
Fish described in 2002
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