A new cleaner goby of the genus Elacatinus (Teleostei: Gobiidae), from Trindade Island, off Brazil.
Author
Ricardo Z. P. Guimarães
Author
Joao Luiz Gasparini
Author
Luiz A. Rocha
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Zootaxa
2004
770
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[[ Genus Elacatinus Jordan ]]
Gobies of the tropical New World genus
Elacatinus Jordan
, the neon gobies, are smallsized reef inhabitants, which are typically brightly colored and engage in cleaning symbiosis with larger fishes and invertebrates (Colin 1975; Johnson 1982; Pezold 1993).
The group is represented by five species in the eastern Pacific (Bussing 1990), 13 in the western North Atlantic (
Boehlke
& Robins 1968; Colin, 2002) and two in the western South Atlantic:
Elacatinus figaro Sazima et al.
from the Brazilian coast (Sazima et al. 1996) and
Elacatinus randalli (
Boehlke
& Robins)
from Fernando de Noronha Archipelago (Sazima & Moura, 2000). During recent field trips to Trindade Island, lying some 1160 km off the eastern Brazilian coast, we collected a third western south Atlantic species of the genus, which is described herein as new.