Slender Eelgoby, Brachyamblyopus brachysoma (Bleeker 1853)

Other Names: Shortbody Blind Eelgoby

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Slender Eelgoby, Brachyamblyopus brachysoma (Bleeker 1853)

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Distribution	Mouth of the Finnis River, Northern Territory. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Indo-west Pacific: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf east to the Philippines, Timor Leste and New Guinea, north to southern China.
Features	Dorsal fin 35-39; Anal fin 28-34; Pectoral fin 20-23; Longitudinal scale rows 70; Vertebrae 10+16=26. Head naked, jaws with an enlarged outer row of teeth; head barbels absent; pectoral fins shorter than pelvic fins (52–74% of pelvic-fin length); most pectoral-fin rays branched; caudal fin rather short, subequal to or shorter than head length; 2–6 enlarged, but not fang-like, canine teeth on outer tooth row of each jaw.
Etymology	The specific name brachysoma is from the Greek brachys (= short) and soma (= body), in reference to the relatively short body of this species.
Species Citation	Amplyopus brachysoma Bleeker 1853, Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 5: 510. Type locality: Priaman, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Slender Eelgoby, Brachyamblyopus brachysoma (Bleeker 1853)

References

Bleeker, P. 1853. Nieuwe tientallen diagnostische beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Sumatra. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 5: 495-534

Bleeker, P. 1874. Esquisse d'un système naturel des gobioïdes. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Naturelles 9: 289-331

Koumans, F.P. 1953. The Fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Gobioidea. Leiden : Brill Vol. 10 423 pp. 95 figs.

Larson, H.K. & Murdy, E.O. 2001. Eleotridae, Gobiidae. pp. 3574-3604 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218.

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

Murdy, E.O. & Shibukawa, K. 2003. A revision of the Indo-Pacific fish genus Caragobius (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae). Zootaxa 301: 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF01116

Stiefel, K.M. 2024. Brachyamblyopus brachysoma. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2024: e.T46082575A46664569. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T46082575A46664569.en. Accessed on 25 February 2025.