Vanderhorstia ambanoro

Vanderhorstia ambanoro
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Vanderhorstia
Species:	V. ambanoro
Binomial name
	Vanderhorstia ambanoro; (Fourmanoir, 1957)
Synonyms
	Cryptocentrus ambanoro Fourmanoir, 1957; Cryptocentrus fasciaventris J. L. B. Smith, 1959; Vanderhorstia fasciaventris (J. L. B. Smith, 1959);

Vanderhorstia ambanoro, the Ambanoro prawn-goby or twin-spotted shrimp-goby, is a species of fish native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in lagoons and coastal bays at depths of from 1 to 30 metres (3.3 to 98.4 ft). This species inhabits areas with mud or sand substrates, where it lives in association with Alpheus shrimps. This species can reach a length of 13 centimetres (5.1 in) TL. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.^[2]

References

^ Larson, H. (2016). "Vanderhorstia ambanoro". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T193075A2191768. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Vanderhorstia ambanoro" in FishBase. June 2013 version.

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[IUCN-1] Larson, H. (2016). "Vanderhorstia ambanoro". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T193075A2191768. Retrieved 16 September 2018.

[2] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2013). "Vanderhorstia ambanoro" in FishBase. June 2013 version.

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