Redspeckled Dwarfgoby

This species has a cephalic sensory-canal pore system lacking IT and POP pores; branched pectoral-fin rays branched; dorsal/anal-fin formula 9/8; with the fifth pelvic-fin ray 70% of the fourth ray (Ref. 107299).Description: body semi-translucent pale orange with dusky orange scale margins; head with orange spots; presence of six internal brown bars on side; distinctive double black spot separated by narrow white area behind upper edge of eye; first four dorsal spines of male, sometimes filamentous; twelfth to fifteenth pectoral rays usually branched; longitudinal scale series 23-25; ctenoid scales, absent on head, nape, breast and pectoral fin base; separated pectoral fins, connected bases by thin membrane; depth of body 3.9-4.3 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 10; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 7 - 8

Has been collected from depths of 0 to 31 m (Ref. 1602). Found in coastal reefs (Ref 90102).

Known from Indonesia, Philippines, and Palau; south to Australia (Great Barrier Reef and NSW); east to Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Tonga, and the Samoan Islands. Widely distributed throughout Fiji. Examination of those stations where the greatest number of individuals was taken did not show any habitat specificity.