| Citation | Greenfield, D.W. and R. Winterbottom, 2016, A key to the dwarfgoby species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota) described between 1871 and 2016.. J. Ocean Sci. Found. 24:35-90. |
| Ref. | 113727 Greenfield, D.W. and R. Winterbottom, 2016 |
| Page | 43 |
| Named Used as Valid | Eviota melasma |
| Comment | key; |
| Locality | |
| Distribution | Described from Australia, but recorded from many other localities, which may represent different species: from Cocos-Keeling Islands throughout the East Indies; in the south from Bali eastwards to Samoa and New Caledonia and southward to Australia |
| Quote | (Scott Reef and the southern Great Barrier Reef); in the north extending to the Yaeyama Islands of Japan and eastward to Micronesia (Palau, FSM [Truk and Enewetak], and the Marshall Islands). Records from Fiji are now identified as Eviota karaspila. |