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Target shrimp goby
Cryptocentrus strigilliceps
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Target shrimp goby
- Scientific
- Cryptocentrus strigilliceps
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Reef fish
- Family
- Gobiidae (gobies)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 12 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 0 to 15 m (usually 0 to 10 m)
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2015
Description
A greenish-brown shrimp goby with pale bands and a row of pale-ringed black spots along the side, the first being the largest, reaching about 12 cm. It lives with a snapping shrimp in silty lagoons.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Cryptocentrus-strigilliceps.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Cryptocentrus_strigilliceps_(Target_shrimpgoby)_and_Alpheus
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.