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Yellownose Shrimpgoby - Stonogobiops xanthorhinica
Yellownose Shrimpgoby - Stonogobiops xanthorhinica are white with yellow snout and 4 black bands; sail-like 1st dorsal fin; often with black rear border extending from 2nd band. Usually found in pairs, sharing burrow with Alpheid Shrimp. They live in commensal with the Alpheid Shrimps, which are blind. The Shrimps do the house keeping of their burrows by cleaning and clearing rubbles/stones from their burrows. As they are blind, they rely on the Gobies, in this case the Yellownose Shrimpgoby to give them signals with their tails, when it is safe to come out of the burrow or to quickly get back into the burrow for safety.
''Stonogobiops nematodes'', the Filament-finned prawn-goby, the Antenna goby, the high-fin goby, the red-banded goby, the high-fin red-banded goby, the striped goby, the barber-pole goby, or the black-ray Goby, is a species of marine goby native to the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean from the Seychelles to the Philippines and Bali.
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