Barred Eviota, Eviota fasciola Karnella & Lachner 1981
Other Names: Barred Dwarfgoby, Barred Pygmy Goby, Grubby Pygmy-goby
A Barred Eviota, Eviota fasciola, in Fiji, December 2018. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A pale pygmygoby with a large dark bar covering most of the pectoral-fin base, numerous prominent dark bars (usually wider than the pale interspaces) across the back extending almost to the ventral surface, and a dark bar on the middle of the caudal peduncle.
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Bray, D.J. 2020, Eviota fasciola in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1347
Barred Eviota, Eviota fasciola Karnella & Lachner 1981
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Distribution |
The northern Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea, to One Tree Island, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, west-central Pacific: Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Papua New Guinea (Trobriand Islands), New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, and throughout Micronesia to Kiribati. A secretive species found on exposed areas of inshore reefs, including shallow reef flats and wave-swept reef margins. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin VI + I,8-9; Anal fin 1,8-9; Pectoral fin 16-17; Pelvic fin 1,4. Caudal fin branched rays 11-13, segmented rays 17; Lateral scale rows 23-25; Transverse scale rows 6; Vertebrae 10 + 16-17 = 26-27. Scales absent from breast. Spinous dorsal fin not elongate. Depressed pelvic fin usually not extending to origin of anal-fin origin, never beyond it. Male genital papilla not fimbriate. |
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Colour |
Pectoral-fin base with large dark orange-brown kidney-shaped to semicircular mark that is darker than trunk bars; head (dorsally) and nape with dark transverse bars, usually complete over dorsal midline, occasionally one or more bars broken up into spots laterally, some with spots or bars darker laterally than dorsally; trunk with prominent, dusky orange, discrete vertical bars, descending to ventral portion of body and continuous over midline; scale pockets on trunk unpigmented. |
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Etymology |
The specific name fasciola is from the Latin fascia (= band) in reference to the bands nearly encircling the trunk. |
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Species Citation |
Eviota fasciola Karnella & Lachner 1981, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 94(1): 268, figs 2-3. Type locality: One Tree Island, Queensland. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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Resources |
Barred Eviota, Eviota fasciola Karnella & Lachner 1981
References
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Gill, A.C. & Jewett, S.L. 2004. Eviota hoesei and E. readerae, new species of fish from the southwest Pacific, with comments on the identity of E. corneliae Fricke (Perciformes: Gobiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 235-240. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1427
Greenfield, D. 2016. Eviota fasciola. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T47402974A69162497. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T47402974A69162497.en. Downloaded on 27 December 2016.
Greenfield, D.W. & Randall, J.E. 2016. A review of the dwarfgobies of Fiji, including descriptions of five new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 20: 25-75. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.48268
Greenfield, D.W. & Winterbottom, R. 2016. A key to the dwarfgoby species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota) described between 1871 and 2016. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 24: 35–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.219620
Karnella, S.J. & Lachner, E.A. 1981. Three new species of the Eviota epiphanes group having vertical trunk bars (Pisces : Gobiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 94(1): 264-275 figs 1-6. See ref at BHL
Kuiter R.W. & Tonozuka, T. 2001. Pictorial Guide to Indonesian Reef Fishes. Part 3. Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 3. Jawfishes - Sunfishes, Opistognathidae - Molidae. Melbourne : Zoonetics pp. 623–893.
Myers, R.F. 1989. Micronesian Reef Fishes. Guam : Coral Graphics 298 pp.
Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp.
Russell, B.C. 1983. Annotated checklist of the coral reef fishes in the Capricorn-Bunker group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Special Publication Series 1: 1-184 figs 1-2
