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Created 2/22/2019

Family Gobiidae

ASIAN PACIFIC

Ctenogobiops pomastictus




Slow & Easy, Yap, 10 feet

GOLD-SPECKLED SHRIMPGOBY

Inhabits burrows with the commensal shrimp Alpheus on silty sand and rubble.  Two rows of elongates dashes and spots on cheek, four rows of brown spots, central row as dashes surrounded by ocellated orange spots, white streak on pectoral fin.  Attains 3 inches.  Thailand to Okinawa, Micronesia, and Fiji.