Striped Eviota, Eviota sebreei Jordan & Seale 1906
Other Names: Sebree's Dwarfgoby, Sebree's Pygmy Goby, Sebree's Pygmy-goby, Striped Pygmygoby
A Striped Eviota, Eviota sebreei, perching on the coral Psammocora digitata, on the reef slope between Bird and South islands, Lizard Island Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Source: Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, lifg.australianmuseum.net.au. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A tiny semi-translucent goby with an internal black midlateral stripe bounded dorsally by whitish dashes, a single dark caudal spot, preceded by a yellow spot,
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Eviota sebreei in Fishes of Australia, accessed 01 Apr 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1359
Striped Eviota, Eviota sebreei Jordan & Seale 1906
More Info
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Distribution |
Coral Bay, Western Australia, north to Cartier Reef in the Timor Sea, and the far northern Great Barrier Reef to Point Lookout, Moreton Bay region, Queensland. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Indo-west central Pacific: from the Mascarenes, Comoros, and Seychelles, north to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, east to the Maldives and Chagos Archipelago, Marshall Islands and Samoa, north to Taiwan, the Ryukyu Islands and southern Japan, south to Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Individuals may be seen perching on live coral heads (often on large Porites corals) in lagoons, reef-slopes and drop-offs at depths to 40 m. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin V-VI + I,7-8; Anal fin I,8-9. Cephalic sensory-canal pore system lacking the NA, PITO & IT pores; pectoral-fin rays unbranched; dorsal/anal-fin formula 9/8; 5th pelvic-fin ray 50–80% of 4th ray; large dark spot at midbase of caudal fin. |
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Similar Species |
Tornabene et al. (2016) described Eviota punyit, sister species to E. sebreei. E. punyit was recognised primarily through genetic analysis, and differs from E. sebreei by DNA sequences and live coloration (it has a red midlateral stripe). Although, theauthors regarded the Australia records of E. sebreei as uncertain, images from Western Australia and Queensland show these individuals with a black midlateral stripe. |
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Etymology |
The species is named in honour of "Capt. Uriel Sebree, U.S. Navy, commandant at the station [Tutuila, American Samoa], and his officers and assistants, through whom the U. S. gunboat Wheeling and its equipment were placed at the disposal of the investigating party". |
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Species Citation |
Eviota sebreei Jordan & Seale 1906, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries (U.S.) for 1905 25: 390, fig. 80. Type locality: Apia, Samoa. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Resources |
Striped Eviota, Eviota sebreei Jordan & Seale 1906
References
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Greenfield, D.W. 2017. An overview of the dwarfgobies, the second most speciose coral-reef fish genus (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 29: 32-54.
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. https://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
Hutchins, B. 2004. Fishes of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 66: 343–398
Hutchins, J.B. 1994. A survey of the nearshore reef fish fauna of Western Australia's west and south coasts — The Leeuwin Province. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 46: 1-66 figs 1-6
Jordan, D.S. & Seale, A. 1906. The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional checklist of the fishes of Oceania. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries (U.S.) for 1905 25: 173-455 figs 1-111 pls 33-53 See ref at BHL
Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls.
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 figs 1-66
Larson, H. 2019. Eviota sebreei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T193042A2187748. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-1.RLTS.T193042A2187748.en. Accessed on 20 October 2024.
Moore, G.I., Morrison, S.M. & Johnson, J.W. 2020. The distribution of shallow marine fishes of the Kimberley, Western Australia, based on a long-term dataset and multiple methods. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No. 85: 105-115 + Appendix Tab. 1. https://doi.org/10.18195/issn.0313-122x.85.2020.105-115 (as Eviota cf. sebreei)
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.
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.
Tornabene, L., Valdez, S., Erdmann, M.V. & Pezold, F.L. 2016. Multi-locus sequence data reveal a new species of coral reef goby (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota), and evidence of Pliocene vicariance across the Coral Triangle. Journal of Fish Biology 88(5): 1811-1834 https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12947
