Goldstreaked Shrimpgoby, Ctenogobiops aurocingulus (Herre 1935)

Other Names: Gold-streaked Prawn-goby, Gold-streaked Shrimpgoby, Rust-speckled Shrimp-goby

A Goldstreaked Shrimpgoby, Ctenogobiops aurocingulus, at Tawiri, Ambon Island, Indonesia. Source: Sally Polack / FishWise Professional. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:

A pale greyish shrimpgoby with three rows of large brown spots and scattered smaller spots on body, fine orange vertical lines on lower sides, diagonal orange bands on head, a small white spot on upper pectoral-fin base, and a larger white spot on basal part of fin.

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Dianne J. Bray, Ctenogobiops aurocingulus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 13 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/104

Goldstreaked Shrimpgoby, Ctenogobiops aurocingulus (Herre 1935)

More Info

Distribution	Recorded in Australia from Mermaid Reef, WA, and Nymph Island to Cape Kimberley, QLD. found elsewhere in the tropical, west-central Pacific. Inhabits sandy rubble areas in lagoons, on reef slopes and reef crests - usually on dark substrates.
Species Citation	Aparrius aurocingulus Herre, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Zool. Ser. Zool. 18(12): 425. Type locality: Ovalau Island, Fiji.
Author	Dianne J. Bray

Goldstreaked Shrimpgoby, Ctenogobiops aurocingulus (Herre 1935)

References

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