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Amblyeleotris marquesas

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Perciformes

Genus
  
Amblyeleotris

Higher classification
  
Amblyeleotris

Phylum
  
Chordata

Family
  
Gobiidae

Scientific name
  
Amblyeleotris marquesas

Rank
  
Species

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Amblyeleotris marquesas is a species of goby only recorded from reefs around Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia in the central Pacific Ocean at depths of 20 to 25 metres (66 to 82 ft). As with other species of their genus, this species has a symbiotic relationship with alpheid shrimps, in this case Alpheus randalli, one or a pair of gobies sharing a burrow with one or a pair of shrimps.

This is an elongated goby up to 6.9 centimetres (2.7 in) standard length. It has a highly distinctive colour pattern: The background colour is pale green, white ventrally, marked with four broad vertical brownish red bars interspersed with four narrower, darker bars.

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Amblyeleotris marquesas Wikipedia