Afele'S Dwarfgoby

This species is distinguished by the following characters: cephalic sensory-canal pore system lacking only the IT pore (pattern 2); branched pectoral-fin rays; dorsal/anal-fin formula is 9/8; the fifth pelvic-fin is ray small or rudimentary (about 10% of 4th pelvic ray); caudal fin has rows of small dark spots set close together on rays, membranes dark; presence of a small dark spot over preural centrum associated with last subcutaneous bar may be present; the scale edges are not dark (Ref. 107299).Description: Translucent grey to greenish color; with narrow, internal, orange-brown bars on body; each scale with dark brownish orange line; head pale grey with vertically elongate orange-brown spots; male with first two dorsal spines sometimes elongate; eleventh to fifteenth pectoral rays usually branched; longitudinal scale series 23-25; ctenoid scales, none on head, nape, chest and base of pectoral fin; separated pelvic fins, thin membrane joining bases; fourth pelvic ray with 6-15 branches; depth of body 4.3-4.8 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Benthic spawner.

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 9; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 6 - 8

Occurs on algal mats of shallow exposed reefs.

分布於太平洋海域，北至臺灣、日本、韓國，南至澳洲大堡礁的南方。 臺灣分布於南部及東沙島。

小型魚類，不具漁業價值。

第一背鰭：Ⅵ；第二背鰭：Ⅰ, 8~9。臀鰭：Ⅰ, 8。胸鰭：15~18。縱列鱗 23~25。體延長，前呈圓筒型，後側扁。第一背鰭的第二棘延長。標準體長為魚體高的4.3~4.8倍。尾鰭圓形。兩腹鰭癒合成一碟狀，末端只延長至肛門位置。魚體體色呈淡棕色。身上分佈有許多橫列的黃棕色斑點。眼睛下方具有三列黃棕色由點狀組合成的橫斑。個鰭皆具黃棕色鰭膜，尾鰭具有橫條紋。

生活於裸露礁石淺水處的海藻叢。