''Platygillellus rubellulus'', the Shortfin sand stargazer, is a species of
sand stargazer
Sand stargazers are blennioids; perciform marine fish of the family Dactyloscopidae. Found in temperate to tropical waters of North and South America; some may also inhabit brackish environments. The giant sand stargazer (''Dactylagnus mundus'' ...
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
native to the waters around the
Galapagos Islands where it prefers to live in areas of fine-grained sediments at depths of from . It can reach a maximum length of
SL.
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rubellulus
Fish described in 1912
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