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Diagonal shrimp goby
Amblyeleotris diagonalis
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Diagonal shrimp goby
- Scientific
- Amblyeleotris diagonalis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Reef fish
- Family
- Gobiidae (gobies)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 11 cm (standard length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 6 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2018
Description
A whitish shrimp goby with two thin slanting brown bands across the snout and cheek and five wider brown bands on the body, reaching about 11 cm. It shares a burrow with a snapping shrimp on sand slopes.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Amblyeleotris-diagonalis.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:HachimakiDHZ.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.