Maximum length: 4.3 inches. Wild habitat: Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Great Barrier Reef, Southeast Asia, Japan and Indo-Malaysian region. 2. Yellow coral goby Yellow crown goby - saltwater ...

Gobies, however, are generally not ‘aggressors’ in the world of fish. Most gobies live in the soft, sandy areas between reefs, while some live within the structure of the coral itself.

In the reef under study, just two species of goby fish take charge of removing the alga — the broad-barred goby (G. histrio) and the redhead goby (P. enchinocephalus).

If these gobies have similar problems, the impacts of acidification on reef communities could be greater than expected. Learn more about coral reefs from the Smithsonian’s Ocean Portal.

These fish may be disproportionately important for their tiny size. By guarding their corals, they ensure that hundreds of other reef-dwellers have stable homes.

The gobies are much smaller than the usual coral defenders that reef conservationists have been thinking about. Reefs need diverse defenders, Hay says.

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A cleaner goby cleans a grouper in a Caribbean coral reef. These little fish clean much bigger fish of parasites and bacteria. Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare ...

Varicus lacerta, a new species of goby (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup) from a mesophotic reef in the southern Caribbean. ZooKeys, 2016; 596: 143 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.596.8217 ...

Pygmy gobies (Eviota sigillata) are found on the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans. During their three-weeks of sexual maturity, the fish produce just three ...

A new paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B from The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute and collaborators, provides the first documented case of a coral reef fish ...

Mesmerizing, kaleidoscopic, and fabulously exotic, the huge variety of types of saltwater fish to pick for your aquarium will give you a visual taste of the underwater ocean world.