EVIOTA SP.
Picture courtesy of: Alain Daoulas
According to David W. Greenfield Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa it's a new endemic species from New Caledonia.
By mail sept 2016.
In Greenfield, D.W. & Winterbottom, R. (2016) A key to the dwarfgoby species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota) described between 1871 and 2016. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 24, 35-90.
Similar to Eviota atriventris (Greenfield & Suzuki, 2012) but not reported from New Caledonia. Abdomen of Eviota Sp. not crossed by a prominent curved white stripe but by 3-6 white dots.
Last update: 14, May 2022