''Amblyeleotris'' is a

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in the

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found throughout the

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region. This is the largest genus of the shrimp gobies or prawn gobies, so-called because of their symbiotic relationship with certain Alpheidae, 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 (biology), antenna. Fossil ''Amblyeleotris'' otoliths have been found together with alpheid shrimp remnants from as early as late early Miocene (Burdigalian) suggesting a possible mutualistic association since then. The species of ''Amblyeleotris'' vary considerably in size from less than 30 mm to almost 200 mm fish measurement, standard length.

Species

There are currently 39 recognized species in this genus: * ''Amblyeleotris arcupinna'' Mark S. Mohlmann, Mohlmann & Philip L. Munday, Munday, 1999 (Arc-fin shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris aurora'' (Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1977) (Pink-bar prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris bellicauda'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2004 * ''Amblyeleotris biguttata'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2004 (Twin-spot shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris bleekeri'' Chen I-Shiung, I. S. Chen, Shao Kwang-Tsao, K. T. Shao & Chen Jeng-Ping, J. P. Chen, 2006 * ''Amblyeleotris callopareia'' Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1979 (Beautiful-cheek shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris cephalotaenia'' (Ni Yong, Y. Ni, 1989) * ''Amblyeleotris delicatulus'' James Leonard Brierley Smith, J. L. B. Smith, 1958 * ''Amblyeleotris diagonalis'' Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1979 (Diagonal shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris downingi'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 1994 (Downing's shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris ellipse'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2004 * ''Amblyeleotris fasciata'' (Albert William Herre, Herre, 1953) (Red-banded prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris fontanesii'' (Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1853) (Giant prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris guttata'' (Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler, 1938) (Spotted prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris gymnocephala'' (Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1853) (Masked shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris harrisorum'' Mark S. Mohlmann, Mohlmann & John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2002 * ''Amblyeleotris japonica'' Kazunori Takagi, Takagi, 1957 * ''Amblyeleotris latifasciata'' Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1979 (Wide-barred shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris macronema'' Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1979 (Long-spine shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris marquesas'' Mark S. Mohlmann, Mohlmann & John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2002 * ''Amblyeleotris masuii'' Yoshimasa Aonuma, Aonuma & Tetsuo Yoshino, Yoshino, 1996 (Masui's shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris melanocephala'' Yoshimasa Aonuma, Aonuma, Akihisa Iwata, Iwata & Tetsuo Yoshino, Yoshino, 2000 (Black-head shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris memnonia'' Artem Mikhailovich Prokofiev, Prokofiev, 2016 Prokofiev, A.M. (2016): New Species of ''Amblyeleotris'' (Gobiidae) from Phan Thiet Bay (South China Sea, Vietnam). ''Journal of Ichthyology, 56 (3): 467-469.'' * ''Amblyeleotris morishitai'' Hiroshi Senou, Senou & Yoshimasa Aonuma, Aonuma, 2007 * ''Amblyeleotris neglecta'' Zeehan Jaafar, Jaafar & John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2009 Jaafar, Z. & Randall, J.E. (2009): A pictorial review and key to the shrimp gobies of the genus ''Amblyeleotris'' of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. ''Smithiana Bulletin, 10: 23-29.'' * ''Amblyeleotris neumanni'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall & John L. Earle, Earle, 2006 * ''Amblyeleotris novaecaledoniae'' Menachem Goren, Goren, 1981 * ''Amblyeleotris ogasawarensis'' Yasunobu Yanagisawa, Yanagisawa, 1978 (Red-spotted shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris periophthalma'' (Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker, 1853) (Broad-banded shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris randalli'' Douglass Fielding Hoese, Hoese & Roger C. Steene, Steene, 1978 (Randall's prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris rhyax'' Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1979 (Volcano shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata'' Mark S. Mohlmann, Mohlmann & John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2002 (Red-margin shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris steinitzi'' (Wolfgang Klausewitz, Klausewitz, 1974) (Steinitz' prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris stenotaeniata'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 2004 * ''Amblyeleotris sungami'' (Wolfgang Klausewitz, Klausewitz, 1969) (Magnus' prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris taipinensis'' Chen I-Shiung, I. S. Chen, Shao Kwang-Tsao, K. T. Shao & Chen Jeng-Ping, J. P. Chen, 2006 * ''Amblyeleotris triguttata'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 1994 (Triple-spot shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris wheeleri'' (Nicholas Vladimir Campbel Polunin, Polunin & Hugh Roger Lubbock, Lubbock, 1977) (Gorgeous prawngoby) * ''Amblyeleotris yanoi'' Yoshimasa Aonuma, Aonuma & Tetsuo Yoshino, Yoshino, 1996 (Flag-tail shrimpgoby) * ''Amblyeleotris kireedam'' Carolin, Bajpai, Maurya & Schwarzhans, 2022 (otolith based fossil species)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q688892 Amblyeleotris, Gobiinae Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker