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Diagnostic Description

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Dorsal to anal fin-ray formula 8/8. Description: with translucent greenish or slightly yellowish with red brown spots on each scale; 5-6 internal brownish bars on body; head with numerous dark brown to reddish spots on head; pectoral fin base with pair of large brown spots; first three dorsal spines of male may be elongate, first two filamentous; tenth to fifteenth pectoral rays almost always branched; longitudinal scale series 23-25; ctenoid scales, none on head, nape and base of pectoral fin; separated pelvic fins, thin membrane joining bases; average of 7 branches on fourth pelvic ray; depth of body 3.9-4.3 in SL (Ref. 90102).
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7 - 9; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 7 - 8
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Biology

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Inhabits inshore reefs in 1-10 m (Ref 90102).
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Estelita Emily Capuli
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Distribution

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Recorded from the Red Sea, the Maldives, and from eastern Indonesia (Nusa Penida and west Papua), north to Japan (Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands), east through Micronesia to he Line Islands and across Polynesia (eastward to Pitcairn Islands), and south to Australia (west coast and southern Great Barrier Reef). In Fiji, this species was rarely taken at scattered locations mostly around Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Great Astrolabe Reef, and the Yasawa Group, usually from protected waters such as patch reefs behind a barrier reef.

Reference

Greenfield, D. W.; Randall, J. E. (2016). A review of the dwarfgobies of Fiji, including descriptions of five new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). Zenodo.

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