Amblyeleotris marquesas

Amblyeleotris marquesas is a species of goby only recorded from reefs around Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia in the central Pacific Ocean at depths of 20 to. As with other species of their genus, this species has a symbiotic relationship with alpheid shrimps, in this case Alpheus randalli, 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 6.9 cm standard length. 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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