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Whip Goby
Bryaninops yongei (Davis & Cohen, 1968)

A Whip Goby at a depth of 20m, North Solitary Island, New South Wales, March 2002. View larger image.

The Whip Goby is semi-transparent. It has a silver line above the lateral line and usually six red-brown bars on the sides.

It grows to 4cm in length.

This species usually occurs as a male/female pair on the seawhip Cirripathes anguina.

It is found in tropical marine waters of the Western and Central Pacific.

In Australia it is known from Rowley Shoals, Western Australia and the northern to central coast of Queensland.

View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.

Further reading:

Kuiter, R.H. 1996. Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia. New Holland. Pp. 433.
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & R.C. Steene. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Crawford House Press. Pp. 557.