Tanzania country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from Zanzibar (Ref. 11441). Needs a better faunal reference.
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/tz.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Randall, J.E., 1995
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Broadbanded shrimpgoby, Broad-banded shrimpgoby, Broad-banded shrimp-goby, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: Amblyeleotris: Greek, amblys = darkness + The name of a Nile fish, eleotris (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bleeker.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 5 - 35 m (Ref. 48637), usually 10 - 20 m (Ref. 27115). Tropical; 22°C - 28°C (Ref. 27115); 35°N - 23°S, 32°E - 174°W

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Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf (Ref.80050) and Red Sea to Tonga, north to Japan and south to Australia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 48637)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 12. Characterized by whitish body color; head and side with six brown to reddish bars and irregular brown blotches in pale spaces in between; four branched main body bars on lower side; red blotch on lower cheek just behind mouth; red or orange spots on head, dark-edged; separate pelvic fins, joined by low membrane at base of fins; without median predorsal scales or only few embedded scales just in front of first dorsal fin; longitudinal scale series 80-85; greatest depth of body 4.6-6.4 in SL; caudal fin longer than head, 2.8-3.4 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Inhabits coastal to outer reef sand slopes to 35 meters depth (Ref. 48637); on sandy areas of lagoon and seaward reefs (Ref. 9710). Inhabits burrows with alpheid shrimps (Ref. 11441).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Myers, R.F., 1991. Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p. (Ref. 1602)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 123251)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 25 June 2018

CITES (Ref. 123416)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Aquarium: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 25.2 - 29.1, mean 28 (based on 484 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00692 (0.00320 - 0.01497), b=3.10 (2.92 - 3.28), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Resilience (Ref. 120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Amblyeleotris periophthalma (Bleeker, 1853)