Island Cleaner Goby

Elacatinus nesiotes

Description:

* This Spotting is not the White Tip Shark but the small fish on the Shark's face. Small and elongated, blunt head red to beyond pectoral fins, three thin whitish bars on head; ten broad orange-brown bars on whitish body. Two separated dorsal fins, fins transparent. Size around 2.5 cm (1 inch)

Habitat:

Perches on rocky reefs and walls. From 5 to 30 meters. Solitary. Feeds on small invertebrates and 'cleans' external parasites from larger fish like in this case, a White Tip Shark.

Notes:

Endemic to Cocos & Galapagos Island.

Species ID Suggestions

6 Comments

AlbertKang 9 years ago

Thanks, @Gilma :)

Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman 9 years ago

Beautiful picture, AlbertKang.

AlbertKang 9 years ago

Thanks again @Ava.
I believe I have submitted more than a hundred new Organism to PN last year :D

Ava T-B 9 years ago

You're right Albert, Congratulations on the first Island Cleaner Goby on project Noah!

AlbertKang 9 years ago

Thanks, @Eva for you comments.
This organism, I believe is new to Project Noah.

The information on the description I provided was from the Fish ID of Cocos Island which was made available to guests when I was on the live aboard Boat during the trip.

Anyway, I will add a link that I found at Discover Life.

Ava T-B 9 years ago

This is a lovely and interesting spotting. To make it complete, and useful to researchers using this site for data, please edit this and add a reference (Wikipedia, Encyclopedia of Life, something else) about this species in the reference field of your spotting. Please do this for each photo you post. Thanks for helping to make Project Noah a complete reference tool for scientists.