Pink-speckled shrimpgoby

Pink-speckled shrimpgoby
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Subfamily:	Gobiinae
Genus:	Gobius
Species:	G. melanopus
Binomial name
Gobius melanopus Bleeker, 1859-60
Synonyms
Cryptocentrus leptocephalus Bleeker, 1876 Cryptocentrus melanopus (Bleeker, 1859-60) Cryptocentrus obliquus (Herre, 1934) Smilogobius obliquus Herre, 1934

Pink-speckled shrimpgoby (also called Pinkspotted Shrimp Goby), Gobius melanopus, is a Goby from the Western Pacific: Indonesia to New Caledonia, north to the Yaeyama Islands, south to northwestern Australia, also Tonga. It grows to a size of 12 cm in length. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade.

References

• Gobius melanopus at FishBase

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