Amblyeleotris marquesas

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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 Script error: No such module "convert".. 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.[1]

This is an elongated goby up to Script error: No such module "convert". 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.[1]

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  1. a b 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.

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