Amblyeleotris
Amblyeleotris diagonalis
Amblyeleotris guttata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Amblyeleotris
Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Eleotris periophthalmus
Bleeker, 1853

Amblyeleotris is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae found throughout the Indo-Pacific region. This is the largest genus of the shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, so-called because of their symbiotic relationship with certain alpheid shrimps. 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. Fossil Amblyeleotris otoliths have been found together with alpheid shrimp remnants from as early as late early Miocene (Burdigalian) suggesting a possible mutualistic association since then.[1]

The species of Amblyeleotris vary considerably in size from less than 30 mm to almost 200 mm standard length.[2]

Species

There are currently 39 recognized species in this genus:

  • Amblyeleotris arcupinna Mohlmann & Munday, 1999 (Arc-fin shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris aurora (Polunin & Lubbock, 1977) (Pink-bar prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris bellicauda J. E. Randall, 2004
  • Amblyeleotris biguttata J. E. Randall, 2004 (Twin-spot shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris bleekeri I. S. Chen, K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 2006
  • Amblyeleotris callopareia Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Beautiful-cheek shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris cephalotaenia (Y. Ni, 1989)
  • Amblyeleotris delicatulus J. L. B. Smith, 1958
  • Amblyeleotris diagonalis Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Diagonal shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris downingi J. E. Randall, 1994 (Downing's shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris ellipse J. E. Randall, 2004
  • Amblyeleotris fasciata (Herre, 1953) (Red-banded prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris fontanesii (Bleeker, 1853) (Giant prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris guttata (Fowler, 1938) (Spotted prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris gymnocephala (Bleeker, 1853) (Masked shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris harrisorum Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002
  • Amblyeleotris japonica Takagi, 1957
  • Amblyeleotris latifasciata Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Wide-barred shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris macronema Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Long-spine shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris marquesas Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002
  • Amblyeleotris masuii Aonuma & Yoshino, 1996 (Masui's shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris melanocephala Aonuma, Iwata & Yoshino, 2000 (Black-head shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris memnonia Prokofiev, 2016 [3]
  • Amblyeleotris morishitai Senou & Aonuma, 2007
  • Amblyeleotris neglecta Jaafar & J. E. Randall, 2009 [4]
  • Amblyeleotris neumanni J. E. Randall & Earle, 2006
  • Amblyeleotris novaecaledoniae Goren, 1981
  • Amblyeleotris ogasawarensis Yanagisawa, 1978 (Red-spotted shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris periophthalma (Bleeker, 1853) (Broad-banded shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris randalli Hoese & Steene, 1978 (Randall's prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris rhyax Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 (Volcano shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002 (Red-margin shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris steinitzi (Klausewitz, 1974) (Steinitz' prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris stenotaeniata J. E. Randall, 2004
  • Amblyeleotris sungami (Klausewitz, 1969) (Magnus' prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris taipinensis I. S. Chen, K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 2006
  • Amblyeleotris triguttata J. E. Randall, 1994 (Triple-spot shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris wheeleri (Polunin & Lubbock, 1977) (Gorgeous prawngoby)
  • Amblyeleotris yanoi Aonuma & Yoshino, 1996 (Flag-tail shrimpgoby)
  • Amblyeleotris kireedam Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022[1] (otolith based fossil species)

References

  1. 1 2 Carolin, Nora; Bajpai, Sunil; Maurya, Abhayanand Singh; Schwarzhans, Werner (2022). "New perspectives on late Tethyan Neogene biodiversity development of fishes based on Miocene (~ 17 Ma) otoliths from southwestern India". PalZ. doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00623-9. S2CID 249184395.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Amblyeleotris in FishBase. January 2016 version.
  3. ↑ Prokofiev, A.M. (2016): New Species of Amblyeleotris (Gobiidae) from Phan Thiet Bay (South China Sea, Vietnam). Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (3): 467-469.
  4. ↑ Jaafar, Z. & Randall, J.E. (2009): A pictorial review and key to the shrimp gobies of the genus Amblyeleotris of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. Smithiana Bulletin, 10: 23-29.
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