''Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus'', commonly known as the harlequin prawn-goby, is a species of
goby.
It recently entered the
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...
with large populations observed along the Israel coast.
[Atlas of Exotic Fishes in the Mediterranean Sea (Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus). 2nd Edition. 2021. 366p. CIESM Publishers, Paris, Monaco.https://ciesm.org/atlas/fishes_2nd_edition/Cryptocentrus_caeruleopunctatus.pdf] Before its recording in the Mediterranean this species was restricted to the
Red Sea
The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; T ...
where it occurs on open sand bottoms of clear water reefs living in association with
alpheid shrimps.
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Fish of Thailand
caeruleopunctatus
Fish described in 1830
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