Amblyeleotris
Amblyeleotris is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae found throughout the Indo-Pacific region. This is the largest genus of the shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, so-called because of their symbiotic relationship with certain alpheid shrimps. The shrimp excavates and maintains a burrow used by both animals while the goby, which has far superior eyesight, acts as a lookout for predators. The shrimp maintains almost constant contact with the fish with an antenna. Fossil Amblyeleotris otoliths have been found together with alpheid shrimp remnants from as early as late early Miocene suggesting a possible mutualistic association since then.
The species of Amblyeleotris vary considerably in size from less than to almost standard length.
Species
There are currently 38 recognized species in this genus:Amblyeleotris arcupinna Mohlmann & Munday, 1999 Amblyeleotris aurora Amblyeleotris bellicauda J. E. Randall, 2004Amblyeleotris biguttata J. E. Randall, 2004 Amblyeleotris bleekeri I. S. Chen, K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 2006 Amblyeleotris callopareia Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 Amblyeleotris cephalotaenia Amblyeleotris delicatulus J. L. B. Smith, 1958Amblyeleotris diagonalis Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 Amblyeleotris downingi J. E. Randall, 1994 Amblyeleotris ellipse J. E. Randall, 2004Amblyeleotris fasciata Amblyeleotris fontanesii Amblyeleotris guttata Amblyeleotris gymnocephala Amblyeleotris harrisorum Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002Amblyeleotris japonica Takagi, 1957- Amblyeleotris kireedam Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 Amblyeleotris latifasciata Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 Amblyeleotris macronema Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 Amblyeleotris marquesas Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002Amblyeleotris masuii Aonuma & Yoshino, 1996 Amblyeleotris melanocephala Aonuma, Iwata & Yoshino, 2000 Amblyeleotris memnonia Prokofiev, 2016 Amblyeleotris morishitai Senou & Aonuma, 2007Amblyeleotris neglecta Jaafar & J. E. Randall, 2009 Amblyeleotris novaecaledoniae Goren, 1981Amblyeleotris ogasawarensis Yanagisawa, 1978 Amblyeleotris periophthalma Amblyeleotris randalli Hoese & Steene, 1978 Amblyeleotris rhyax Polunin & Lubbock, 1979 Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata Mohlmann & J. E. Randall, 2002 Amblyeleotris steinitzi Amblyeleotris stenotaeniata J. E. Randall, 2004Amblyeleotris sungami Amblyeleotris taipinensis I. S. Chen, K. T. Shao & J. P. Chen, 2006Amblyeleotris triguttata J. E. Randall, 1994 Amblyeleotris wheeleri Amblyeleotris yanoi Aonuma & Yoshino, 1996