Eyeline Coralgoby, Gobiodon oculolineatus Wu 1979

Other Names: Eyeline Coral Goby

An Eyeline Coralgoby, Gobiodon oculolineatus, from the Gambier islands, French Polynesia - USNM 402618. Source: Jeffrey T. Williams, Division of Fishes, Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:

Lives among the branches of Acropora corals.

Cite this page as:

Bray, D.J. 2017, Gobiodon oculolineatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Mar 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2232

Eyeline Coralgoby, Gobiodon oculolineatus Wu 1979

More Info

Distribution	Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical west-Pacific.
Feeding
Species Citation	Gobiodon oculolineatus Wu 1979, Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 10(2): 157, fig. 1. Type locality: Yongxing Island, Xisha Islands, China.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2017
Resources	Australian Faunal Directory

Eyeline Coralgoby, Gobiodon oculolineatus Wu 1979

References

Cole, K.S. 2009. Modifications of the reproductive complex and implications for the reproductive biology of Gobiodon oculolineatus (Teleostei: Gobiidae), Environmental Biology of Fishes 84: 261-273.

Harold, A.S., Winterbottom, R., Munday, P.L. & Chapman, R.W. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of Indo-Pacific coral gobies of the genus Gobiodon (Teleostei: Gobiidae), based on morphological and molecular data. Bulletin of Marine Science 82(1): 119-136.

Munday, P.L., Harold, A.S. & Winterbottom, R.W. 1999. Guide to coral-dwelling gobies, genus Gobiodon (Gobiidae) from Papua New Guinea and the Great Barrier Reef. Revue Française d'Aquariologie et Herpétologie 26: 53-58.

Nakashima, Y., Kuwamura, T. & Yogo,Y. 1996. Both-ways sex change in monogamous coral gobies, Gobiodon spp. Environmental Biology of Fishes 46(3): 281-288.

Wu, H. 1979. Description of two new species of Gobiodon Bleeker from China. Oceanologia et Limnologia Sinica 10(2): 157-160.