''Eviota'' is a
genus
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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
family
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Gobiidae, commonly as dwarfgobies found in the
Indo-
Pacific region, where it is
distributed from
Japan
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to
Australia
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and from
Africa
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to
Pitcairn Island
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Geography
The island is of volcanic origin, with a rugged cliff coastline. Unlike many other ...
.
[ ]Species
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are mainly associated with coral reef
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Co ...
s.[ Many of these fish are short-lived, with life cycles as brief as 3.5 weeks in the tropics. Some species are ]hermaphrodite
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Many Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic groups of animals (mostly invertebrate ...
s and some representatives live symbiotically among the tentacles of the mushroom coral.[Bos, A.R. (2012)]
Fishes (Gobiidae and Labridae) associated with the mushroom coral ''Heliofungia actiniformis'' (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) in the Philippines.
''Coral Reefs, 31 (1): 133–133.''[Bos, A.R. & Hoeksema, B.W. (2014)]
Cryptobenthic fishes and co-inhabiting shrimps associated with the mushroom coral ''Heliofungia actiniformis'' (Fungiidae) in the Davao Gulf, Philippines.
''Environmental Biology of Fishes, 98 (6): 1479–1489.''
Species
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q139866
Gobiidae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Oliver Peebles Jenkins