Eviota | |
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Eviota albolineata | |
Eviota epiphanes | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gobiiformes |
Family: | Gobiidae |
Genus: | Eviota O. P. Jenkins, 1903 |
Type species | |
Eviota epiphanes O. P. Jenkins, 1903
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Synonyms | |
Allogobius Waite, 1904 |
Eviota is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, commonly as dwarfgobies found in the Indo-Pacific region, where it is distributed from Japan to Australia and from Africa to Pitcairn Island.[1][2] Species are mainly associated with coral reefs.[2] Many of these fish are short-lived, with life cycles as brief as 3.5 weeks in the tropics. Some species are hermaphrodites and some representatives live symbiotically among the tentacles of the mushroom coral.[2][3][4]
These are the currently recognized species in this genus:[5]