Zebra Eviota, Eviota zebrina Lachner & Karnella 1978
Other Names: Five-bar Pygmy-goby, Zebra Dwarfgoby, Zebra Goby
A Zebra Eviota, Eviota zebrina, on Big Vicki's Reef, Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Source: Lyle Vail / Lizard Island Field Guide, http://lifg.australianmuseum.net.au/. License: CC BY Attribution
Summary:
A translucent pygmy goby with a red internal stripe along the vertebral column, white dashes above the stripe, reddish internally on the abdomen with two rows of white spots along the side, short red bars across the back, white spots and dashes on head, a round dark spot on the middle of the caudal-fin base, and 3-4 dark wavy vertical lines on the caudal fin.
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Bray, D.J. 2021, Eviota zebrina in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1364
Zebra Eviota, Eviota zebrina Lachner & Karnella 1978
More Info
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Distribution |
Monte Bello Islands, Western Australia, to Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea to One Tree Island, Queensland; also reefs in the Coral Sea and Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in tropical Indo-west-central Pacific: Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba, across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia; north to Taiwan, Japan, Marshall Islands, and Kiribati; east to New Caledonia, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, Samoa, and Tonga; south Australia. Often inhabits dead algal-covered reefs. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin VI + I,7-10; Anal fin I, 7-8. Cephalic sensory-canal pore system lacking the IT pore only (pattern 2); all pectoral-fin rays unbranched; dorsal/anal-fin formula 8-9/7-8 (usually 9/8 in the Pacific); fifth pelvic-fin ray 5-10% of fourth ray. |
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Similar Species |
The similar Hairfin Eviota, Eviota prasites, lacks black spot on the tail base, and has more red on the body. |
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Etymology |
The species is named zebrina (= zebra-like) in reference to the dark oblique bars on the caudal fin. |
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Species Citation |
Eviota zebrina Lachner & Karnella 1978, Smithson. Contrib. Zool. 286: 15, figs 2b, 10-11. Type locality: Curieuse Island, Seychelles. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2021 |
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Resources |
Zebra Eviota, Eviota zebrina Lachner & Karnella 1978
References
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Greenfield, D., Larson, H. & Williams, J.T. 2016. Eviota zebrina. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T193076A2191917. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T193076A2191917.en. Downloaded on 28 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
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Lachner, E.A. & Karnella, S.J. 1978. Fishes of the genus Eviota of the Red Sea with descriptions of three new species (Teleostei : Gobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 286: 1-23 figs 1-11
Lachner, E.A. & Karnella, S.J. 1980. Fishes of the Indo-Pacific genus Eviota with descriptions of eight new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 315: 1–127, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.315
Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293.
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
