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Eviota

Eviota
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Eviota albolineata
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Eviota masudai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Eviota
O. P. Jenkins, 1903
Type species
Eviota epiphanes
O. P. Jenkins, 1903
Synonyms

Allogobius Waite, 1904
Eviotops Smith, 1957


Allogobius Waite, 1904
Eviotops Smith, 1957

Eviota is a genus of fish in the family Gobiidae, commonly as dwarfgobies found in the Indo-Pacific region, where it is distributed from Japan to Australia and from Africa to Pitcairn Island.Species are mainly associated with coral reefs. Many of these fish are short-lived, with life cycles as brief as 3.5 weeks in the tropics. Some species are hermaphrodites and some representatives live symbiotically among the tentacles of the mushroom coral.

There are currently 111 recognized species in this genus:


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