Purple Firegoby, Nemateleotris decora Randall & Allen 1973
Other Names: Decorated Dartfish, Elegant Dartfish, Elegant Firefish, Purple Fire Goby, Purple Fire-goby, Redbanner Goby
A Purple Firegoby, Nemateleotris decora, at Sumbawa, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Bray, D.J. 2023, Nemateleotris decora in Fishes of Australia, accessed 11 Feb 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2942
Purple Firegoby, Nemateleotris decora Randall & Allen 1973
More Info
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Distribution |
Northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and reefs in the Coral Sea; also Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in the Eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species occurs in the east-Indo-west-central Pacific. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin decorus (= elegant, beautiful), in reference to the coloration of this species. |
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Species Citation |
Nemateleotris decora Randall & Allen 1973, Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum 26(3, 4): 361, figs 3, 6-7. Type locality: Southwestern side of Augulupelu Reef, 7°15'33"N, 134°31'33"E, Palau Islands, Philippine Sea, depth 52 m. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2023 |
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Purple Firegoby, Nemateleotris decora Randall & Allen 1973
References
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Allen, G.R., Steene, R.C. & Orchard, M. 2007. Fishes of Christmas Island. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 2 edn, 284 pp.
Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp.
Allen, G.R. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 1994. Fishes of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 412: 1-21
Allen, G.R. & Steene, R.C. 1979. The Fishes of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Aust. Natl. Parks Wldlf. Ser. Spec. Publ. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service 81 pp. 15 pls
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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. 1973. A revision of the gobiid fish genus Nemateleotris, with descriptions of two new species. Quarterly Journal of the Taiwan Museum 26(3, 4): 347-367 figs 1-7
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.
Tea, Y.-K. & Larson, H.K. 2023. Synopsis of the ptereleotrine goby genus Nemateleotris, with description of a new species from the western and central Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71: 248-266 See ref online
