Who can tell this goby ?

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

Here is a tiny goby, some 4cm long. A very beautiful fish, but I cannot tell the name of it.

Can anybody tell its scientific name or its describer ?

 

[Anonymous]

Ptereleotris spp. If I had to guess a species it would be P. randalli.

http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSumm ... e=randalli

 

[Anonymous]

Notice the horizontal striping in the dorsal fin. I would bet money this is a Ptereleotris spp.

Ptereleotris grammica grammica

Mystery fish

 

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

Thank you.

The fish is quite shorter than the members of Ptereleotris, and it seems to belong to other genus (of true goby), but I am not sure. Any other reply or hint ?

 

[Anonymous]

How bout telling us where you found it, so we can narrow down our searches

 

[Anonymous]

I could very well be wrong but I think this is your guy.

From this source

http://uri.sakura.ne.jp/~dd/g/einfn2.htm

 

[Anonymous]

A Nemateleotris spp.? Hmmmmm.

I found a little better pic of the one I was thinking of. It even has the lanceolate tail. The body does appear a little too short though. Maybe it is a virtue of the camera angle? Can you get any other pictures of the fish Dr. Tanaka, or was this taken in the wild?

 

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

Thank you very much, friends and it is similar to the one shown by knowse (but it is not a Nemateleotris).

I have only one pic for the specimen in the aquarium, and yes, it is a result of a camera angle. It came from Indonesia, I hear.

 

[bgreene]

Just back from a month long trip. That fish is Tryssogobius colini, I see them on my 100m+ dives in Micronesia.

Aloha,
Brian

 

[bgreene]

To add to that, it is a Microdesmid, like the other dartfish posted.

-BRian

 

[Anonymous]

Cool fish!!!

 

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

Many thanks, Brian and Matt !

I did not notice its name until now. The eye is bright blue. The last photo may show an adult coloration with green and blue. Mine is only 4cm long and is almost colorless.

 

[FragMaster]

Matt got it spot on.

 

[Anonymous]

It is Tryssogobius septemephors. :wink:
:lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Matt got it spot on.

No, I just found a picture of it after Brian told us all the Latin name.

 

[Anonymous]

We just sell them as Blue Eye trimmas here, even though their not trimmas Most of the ones we see, come from Cebu.

 

[FragMaster]

Remember mortal combat on super NES? "WHOOPS'YYYYYY" LOL!!!!

 

[Anonymous]

Have no idea what your talking about. The crazy things kids say now adays

 

[Hiroyuki Tanaka]

Thank you, all. I will try to search and to know more about the species.

 

[dvmsn]

Hiroyuki, where do you fnd all of these fish?