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Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrate > fishes > Family Gobiidae
Speckled shrimp-goby
Cryptocentrus sp.
Family Gobiidae
updated Nov 11

Where seen? This goby lives with a shrimp and is sometimes seen on our Southern shores. In rubbly areas near seagrasses. More about the goby and shrimp partnership.

Features: About 5cm. Body long and narrow with faint bars, dark spots along the sides and tiny pale speckles all over the body. It shares a burrow with a snapping shrimp.

Pulau Semakau, Feb 09

Photos shared by Tang Hung Bun.


Pulau Sekudu, Oct 11


Cyrene Reef, Jul 09


Pasir Ris, Jun 10

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