Amblyeleotris marquesas

Taxobox
name = "Amblyeleotris marquesas"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Gobiidae
genus = "Amblyeleotris"
species = "A. marquesas"
binomial = "Amblyeleotris marquesas"
binomial_authority = Mohlmann & Randall 2002

"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 goby up to 7 cm 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.

References

* [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/50/50rbz215-226.pdf Three new species of gobiid fishes of the genus "Amblyeleotris" from the central and western Pacific]