Beautiful dwarfgoby

📖 Overview

Beautiful dwarfgoby (Eviota bella), first described by Greenfield, Erdmann & Ichida, 2025 is a tiny fish in the family Gobiidae (order Gobiiformes). Adults typically reach 1.90 cm in maximum length. It inhabits marine coastal and open-ocean environments. Recorded depth range: 4 to 15 metres. It occurs in Tropical waters. It is broadly omnivorous, taking invertebrates, plant matter, and detritus.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 9. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: a combination of a cephalic sensory-canal pore system pattern IV (lacking PITO and IT pores and AITO pore enlarged); a dorsal/anal fin-ray formula 9/9; pectoral-fin rays unbranched; fifth pelvic-fin ray elongate; ventral half of body with a red to dusky red stripe in life (grey in preservative), extending from behind head to caudal-fin base ending in a symmetrical black spot; ventral stripe bordered dorsally by a yellow-to-orange stripe in live coloration; melanophores broadly scattered on upper half of pectoral-fin base; eye with a few small, white spots surrounding pupil and small white spots covering an orange dorsal sclera; and male urogenital papilla narrow, elongate with two short lateral points at end and spotted with black dots .: elongated; Cross section: oval.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Beautiful dwarfgoby is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

🥚 Reproduction

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 4 - 15 m . Tropical Central Pacific: Papua New Guinea.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🐠 Related Species

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