Gobie à taches jumelle, Twinspot shrimpgoby,

Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Anal spine: 1; Anal soft rays: 13; Vertebrae: 25; Pectoral fin rays: 19; Pelvic fins joined by membrane to tips of fifth rays; Pelvic frenum present; Fourth pelvic ray longest; Fifth pelvic ray branching twice; Longitudinal scale series: 91-103; No median predorsal scales; Scales on side of nape extending to above middle of opercle. Gill opening reaching forward to a vertical about two-thirds orbit diameter behind eye. Body depth: 5.8-6.1 in SL; Head length: 3.6-3.8 in SL; Caudal fin pointed and long: 2.2-2.6 in SL. Max. length: 10.4 cm TL. Depth range: 11 - 50 m.

Color
Pale brown dorsally, white ventrally, with three indistinct brown bars on body, and a slightly oblique brown bar from nape across opercle; Pale interspaces with small brown blotches, faintly interconnected; A pair of prominent black spots on chin; Dorsal fins yellowish grey, the first dorsal with small irregular dark-edged pale blue spots and orange tipped spines, the second dorsal with a broad yellow border containing small dark-edged pale blue spots, the rays tipped with orange; Caudal fin with a vertically elongate diffuse brown spot on base.

Etymology
Amblyeleotris: from Greek, amblys or amblus = dull (blade: not sharp), blunt, obtuse + from the Greek name of a fish, eleōtris, found in the swampy waters of the Nile (Egypt) (from the Greek, eleios = who lives in the marshes). The name Eleotris appears for the first time in Déipnosophistes, a compilation of anecdotes and quotations from ancient authors, written by a scholar and grammarian Greek, Athenaeus of Naucratis (about 170-223 AD). In 1763, the Dutch naturalist and collector Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius (1730-1777) used this name to designate a new genus of fish. The authorship of the genre escapes him because his work was rejected by the scientific community of the time. The genre should have returned to the doctor, entomologist and naturalist of Italian culture, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788) but the late recognition of his work made him lose the authorship of the name. Today the genus, Eleotris, is attributed to Bloch & Schneider, 1801.

biguttata: from Latin, bi = two + from Latin, guttātus = spotted, speckled. Referring to the prominent black spots on the chin.
Original description: Amblyeleotris biguttata Randall, 2004  - Type locality: 7 miles west of Honiara, adjacent to the wreck of a Japanese transport ship, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, western Pacific, depth 35 meters.

Distribution
Western Pacific: New Caledonia and Solomon Islands.

Biology
The species inhabits silty sand areas and is associated with unidentified alpheid shrimp, where this species takes refuge in the shrimp's burrow.

Similar species
Amblyeleotris masuii (Aonuma & Yoshino, 1996) - Reported from Southeastern Indian Ocean, western Pacific: Bali (Indonesia), east to Philippines, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan). Differ in Longitudinal scale series: 92-97 and greatest depth of body: 7.1-8.5 in SL.
Amblyeleotris neumanni (Randall & Earle, 2006) - Reported from Western Pacific: New Britain (Papua New Guinea).