Actinopterygii (Gigaclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Teleostei (Subclass) > Gobiiformes (Order) > Gobioidei (Suborder) > Gobiidae (Family) > Gobiinae (Subfamily) > Amblyeleotris (Genus)

Gobie drapeau, Flag-tail shrimp-goby, Flagtail shrimpgoby, Fahnenschwanz-Wächtergrundel, Yano-datehaze, ヤノダテハゼ, 亚诺钝塘鳢, 亞諾鈍塘鱧,

Description
Dorsal spines (total): 6-7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Anal spine: 1; Anal soft rays: 13; Longitudinal scale series: 97-103; Greatest depth of body: 7.7-8.2 in SL; Pelvic fins joined by low membrane, absence of frenum; Midline of nape without scales; Scales on side of nape extending forward to above posterior margin of operculum; Lanceolate caudal fin, longer than head. Max. length: 13.0 cm SL. Depth range: 3 - 35 m.

Color
Whitish body color with five light orange-brown, diffuse bars; Brown saddles dorsally between main dark bars; Caudal fin yellow with reddish orange central area and oblique blue bands.

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.