Tangaroan shrimp-goby
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| Tangaroan shrimp-goby | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Ctenogobiops |
| Species: | C. tangaroai |
| Binomial name | |
| Ctenogobiops tangaroai Lubbock & Polunin, 1977 |
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The Tangaroan shrimp-goby, Ctenogobiops tangaroai, is a goby of the family Gobiidae, found in the Pacific Ocean to depths up to 40 m, in reef areas of broken rock and sand or mud. It reaches a max length of 6 cm.
It is frequently found living in a symbiotic relationship with shrimp.
[edit] References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2007). "Ctenogobiops tangaroai" in FishBase. April 2007 version.
