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Island Cleaner Goby - Elacatinus nesiotes
This Spotting is not about the White Tip Shark but the small fish on its snout. Island Cleaner Goby - Elacatinus nesiotes is a small and elongated, blunt head red to beyond pectoral fins, three thin whitish bars on head; ten broad orange-brown bars on whitish body. Two separated dorsal fins, fins transparent. Size around 2.5 cm.
This Goby is endemic to Cocos Island
Elongate; head rounded, depressed; upper lip connected to snout at front; a pore midway between front of the two eyes; 2 pores on preopercle; no teeth on roof of mouth; tongue with blunt tip; dorsal VII (1st spine longest) + I, 10-11; anal rays I, 9-10; pectoral rays 17-19; pelvic fins fused in a disc; tail rounded; no scales.
Head red above, orange on sides, yellow below, with 3 narrow white brown-edged bars; body white with 5-7 pairs of wide dark-edged orange-brown superficial bars,.. more
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