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Orange-dashed Goby
Valenciennea puellaris (Tomiyama, 1956)
An Orange-dashed Goby at a depth of 8m, off Garove Island, Witu Group, New Britain, April 2003. View larger image.
The Orange-dashed Goby is light brown to grey above and white below. It has a blue-edged orange line along the side of the body, a series of orange dashes on the upper body and two rows of light blue dashes on the head.
This species grows to 14cm in length.
It lives in a burrow that it excavates in sand or rubble. It is often seen in pairs.
The Orange-dashed Goby occurs widely in marine waters of the tropical Indo-West Pacific.
In Australia it is known from the central coast of Western Australia, around the tropical north of the country and south to northern New South Wales.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
Further reading
- Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Western Australian Museum. Pp. 292.
- Allen, G.R. & R. Swainston. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A Field Guide for Anglers and Divers. Western Australian Museum. Pp. 201.
- Hoese, D. F., and H. K. Larson. 1994. Revision of the Indo-Pacific gobiid fish genus Valenciennea, with descriptions of seven new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes No. 23: 1-71.
- 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.
