Tangaroan shrimp-goby

Tangaroan shrimp-goby
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Ctenogobiops
Species:	C. tangaroai
Binomial name
Ctenogobiops tangaroai Lubbock & Polunin, 1977

The Tangaroan shrimp-goby, Ctenogobiops tangaroai, is a goby of the family Gobiidae, found in the Pacific Ocean to depths up to 40 m, in reef areas of broken rock and sand or mud. It reaches a max length of 6 cm.

It is frequently found living in a symbiotic relationship with shrimp.

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2007). "Ctenogobiops tangaroai" in FishBase. April 2007 version.