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Whip coral goby
Bryaninops yongei
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Whip coral goby
- Scientific
- Bryaninops yongei
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Reef fish
- Family
- Gobiidae (gobies)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 3.5 cm (standard length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 3 to 45 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2015
Description
A small, semi-transparent goby with a brownish lower body and faint bars, reaching about 3.5 cm. It lives in pairs on wire corals along current-swept drop-offs, shuffling around the stem to hide.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Bryaninops-yongei.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Bryaninops_yongei.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.