Amblyeleotris is a genus of colourful gobies found throughout the Indo-Pacific

Indo-Pacific

The Indo-Pacific is a biogeographic region of the Earth's seas, comprising the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the seas connecting the two in the general area of Indonesia...

 region. With 37 recognized species, this is the largest genus of the shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, so-called because of their symbiotic relationship with certain alpheid

Alpheidae

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 of these species include pistol shrimp or alpheid shrimp.The family is diverse and worldwide in distribution,...

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Shrimp

Shrimp are swimming, decapod crustaceans classified in the infraorder Caridea, found widely around the world in both fresh and salt water. Adult shrimp are filter feeding benthic animals living close to the bottom. They can live in schools and can swim rapidly backwards. Shrimp are an important...

s. The shrimp excavates and maintains a burrow used by both animals while the goby, which has far superior eyesight, acts as a lookout for predators. The shrimp maintains almost constant contact with the fish with an antenna

Antenna (biology)

Antennae in biology have historically been paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods. More recently, the term has also been applied to cilium structures present in most cell types of eukaryotes....

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Amblyeleotris species vary considerably in size from less than 30 mm to almost 200 mm standard length

Fish measurement

Fish measurement refers to the measuring of the length of individual fish and of various parts of their anatomy. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology.-Overall length:...

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Species

• Amblyeleotris arcupinna
• Amblyeleotris aurora - pinkbar goby
  Pinkbar goby
  Pinkbar goby is a goby from the Western Indian Ocean. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 11 cm in length....
  
  
• Amblyeleotris bellicauda
• Amblyeleotris biguttata
• Amblyeleotris bleekeri
• Amblyeleotris callopareia
• Amblyeleotris delicatulus
• Amblyeleotris diagonalis
  Amblyeleotris diagonalis
  Amblyeleotris diagonalis is a Goby from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 11 cm in length....
  
  
• Amblyeleotris downingi - Downing's shrimp goby
• Amblyeleotris ellipse
• Amblyeleotris fasciata - red-banded prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris fontanesii - giant prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris guttata
  Amblyeleotris guttata
  Spotted prawn goby is a goby from the Western Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 11 cm in length....
  
  - spotted prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris gymnocephala - masked shrimp goby
• Amblyeleotris harrisorum
  Amblyeleotris harrisorum
  Amblyeleotris harrisorum is a species of goby currently only recorded from Kiritimati in the Line Islands of the central Pacific. As with other Amblyeleotris species, it has a symbiotic relationship with alpheid shrimps....
  
  
• Amblyeleotris japonica
• Amblyeleotris katherine
• Amblyeleotris latifasciata
• Amblyeleotris macronema
• Amblyeleotris marquesas
  Amblyeleotris marquesas
  Amblyeleotris marquesas is a species of goby only recorded from Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, central Pacific. As with other Amblyeleotris species, it has a symbiotic relationship with alpheid shrimps, one or a pair of gobies sharing a burrow with one or a pair of shrimps.This is an elongated...
  
  
• Amblyeleotris masuii
• Amblyeleotris melanocephala
• Amblyeleotris morishitai
• Amblyeleotris neumanni
• Amblyeleotris novaecaledoniae
• Amblyeleotris ogasawarensis
• Amblyeleotris periophthalma - periophthalma prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris randalli
  Amblyeleotris randalli
  Randall's prawn goby is a Goby from the Western Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 12 cm in length....
  
  - Randall's prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris rhyax - Volcano shrimp goby
• Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata
  Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata
  Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata is a species of goby found in the western Pacific from New Caledonia to the Great Barrier Reef and around New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines...
  
  
• Amblyeleotris steinitzi - Steinitz' prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris stenotaeniata
• Amblyeleotris sungami - Magnus' prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris taipinensis
• Amblyeleotris triguttata - triplespot shrimp goby
• Amblyeleotris wheeleri
  Amblyeleotris wheeleri
  Gorgeous prawn goby is a goby from the Indo-Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 10 cm in length....
  
  - gorgeous prawn goby
• Amblyeleotris yanoi - flagtail shrimp goby