Stony Coral Ghostgoby

Q: Where can you find Stony Coral Ghostgoby?

Stony Coral Ghostgoby can be found in: Egypt East, Laccadive Islands, Mariana Islands, Australia West, Saudi Arabia West, Malaysia East, Taiwan, Marshall Islands, Malaysia West, Hawaii, Vanuatu, Sudan, Brunei, Myanmar, Eritrea, Australia, India, Israel, USA West, Japan South, India West, Thailand West, Israel South, Oman, Somalia North, Australia East, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelles, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Red Sea, Japan, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Mozambique, Jordan, Palau, Philippines, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Egypt, Tonga and Samoa, Yemen, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Kiribati, Djibouti, Comoros, Fiji, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Somalia.

Pleurosicya micheli

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Pleurosicya micheli is a speciess of gobies native to reef environments of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Description

Sides of nape with 8-12 scale rows (Ref. 37816); characterized further by semi-transparent body; midlateral stripe, internal reddish brown; vertebral column with white markings above; longitudinal scale series 22-28; without median predorsal scales; scaled side of nape to above preopercle; broad gill opening, reaching at least to below rear edge of eye; depth of body at anus 5.0-7.1 in SL.

Distribution

Indo-Pacific: Seychelles to Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands.

Habitat

Inhabit coastal reef slopes, usually on hard corals to about 30 meters depth. Sometimes found on the mantle of clams and eggs are usually laid on ascidians. Benthic. The species is generally commensal on hard corals.