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    R. Robins, 1968 Elacatinus cayman Victor, 2014 (Cayman cleaner goby) Elacatinus centralis Victor, 2014 (Cayman sponge goby) Elacatinus chancei Beebe &...
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    (2013). "Elacatinus oceanops" in FishBase. June 2013 version. Media related to Elacatinus oceanops at Wikimedia Commons Data related to Elacatinus oceanops...
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    Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2016). "Elacatinus evelynae" in FishBase. October 2016 version. Saban, Ayesha (2016). "Elacatinus evelynae (Sharknose Goby)" (PDF)...
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    trade. Elacatinus puncticulatus is a member of the family Gobiidae, which is broken up into two genera: Elacatinus and Gobiosoma. Elacatinus is a genus...
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    Froese; D . Pauly (eds.). "Elacatinus figaro Sazima, Moura & Rosa, 1997". Fishbase. Retrieved 18 February 2017. "Yellowline (Elacatinus figaro)". Oceans, Reefs...
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  • Elacatinus atronasus is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Gobiidae which is endemic to a single reef in Exuma Sound in the Bahamas. It is a species...
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  • Foundation, Palau, who made a comparative study of the genus Elacatinus for his doctoral thesis. Elacatinus colini was originally thought to be a color variant...
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  • Elacatinus chancei, the shortstripe goby, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Gobiidae. It lives inside or on the surface of a sponge and occurs...
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    name Tigrigobius multifasciatus (Steindachner, 1876) Synonyms Gobiosoma multifasciatus Steindachner, 1876 Elacatinus multifasciatus (Steindachner, 1876)...
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    also engage in mutualistic relationship with cleaner gobies of genus Elacatinus, allowing them to feed on ectoparasites on their bodies. The family Haemulidae...
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    and goby quickly retreat into the burrow. Different species of gobies (Elacatinus spp.) also clean up ectoparasites in other fish, possibly another kind...
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  • en. Retrieved 19 November 2021. "Elacatinus horsti (Metzelaar, 1922)". FishBase. Retrieved 2012-09-14. "Elacatinus horsti Metzelaar 1922". Gobioid Research...
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    Elacatinus pridisi is a species of goby endemic to the islands of Trindade and Martin Vaz and the seamounts associated to these islands in Brazil. Like...
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    and numerous species of cleaner fish, especially wrasses and gobies (Elacatinus spp). When a client approaches a cleaning station, they usually open their...
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    by fish species such as gobies in the genus Gobiosoma, Bodianus rufus, Elacatinus figaro, and Thalassoma noronhanum. Sergeant majors also clean green sea...
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    juveniles seek out cleaning stations occupied by yellownose gobies (Elacatinus randalli), which clean the sharks of parasites while they lie still on...
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  • species. Elacatinus, also widely known as neon gobies, also exhibit social monogamy. Hetereosexual pairs of fish belonging to the genus Elacatinus remain...
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    Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Neon gobies of the genera Gobiosoma and Elacatinus provide a cleaning service similar to the cleaner wrasse, though this...
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    observed being cleaned by the wrasse Bodianus diplotaenia and the goby Elacatinus puncticulatus. Unusually, there is also a report of seven whitetip reef...
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    ectoparasites, thereby providing anti-pest service, as in cleaning symbiosis. Elacatinus and Gobiosoma, genera of gobies, feed on ectoparasites of their clients...
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    cleaner fish in different families, such as the Caribbean neon goby (Elacatinus evelynae) and the Indo-Pacific cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) share...
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    They also engage in symbiotic relationship with cleaner gobies of genus Elacatinus, allowing the gobies to feed on ectoparasites on their bodies. Clownfish...
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    needed] Other fish that engage in such cleaning behavior include goby fish (Elacatinus spp.) The bluestreak cleaner wrasse is known to clean balaenopteridae...
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  • of 2.3 centimetres (0.91 in) SL. Findley, L.; Van Tassell, J. (2010). "Elacatinus nesiotes". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T183307A8090705...
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    behavior is analogous to human domestication. The genus of goby fish, Elacatinus also demonstrate cooperation by removing and feeding on ectoparasites...
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    needed] Another example of symbiosis is demonstrated by the neon gobies (Elacatinus spp.). These gobiids, known as "cleaner gobies", remove parasites from...
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    Y Nassau grouper Epinephelus striatus Y Y Neon goby Elacatinus evelynae Y Y Neon goby Elacatinus oceanops Y Y Neon tetra Paracheirodon innesi Y Y Night...
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    burrows with alpheid shrimps, while other species live as cleaner fish, e.g Elacatinus. They can be sequential hermaphrodites and numerous species are known...
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  • Exuma goby (Elacatinus atronasus) Cayman cleaner goby (Elacatinus cayman) Cayman sponge goby (Elacatinus centralis) Jarocho goby (Elacatinus jarocho) Plain...
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  • Shortstripe goby (Elacatinus chancei) Belize sponge goby (Elacatinus colini) Banded cleaner goby (Elacatinus digueti) Sharknose goby (Elacatinus evelynae) Cleaner...
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