Gobiidae

Thai Bumblebee Goby

Brachygobius sabanus

Black and yellow stripes between Indonesia and Thailand

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Southeast Asia
• Small
• Tropical fish

Brachygobius sabanus is one of 8 species of goby in the Brachygobius genus, which all share the common name of bumblebee fish or bumblebee goby due to their characteristic black and yellow stripes. Over the past two centuries, efforts to distinguish different species within the Brachygobius genus have occurred within scientific literature; Brachygobius sabanus was described within literature as its own species in 1958, by Robert F. Inger. Other gobies within the genus are B. nunus, B. doriae, B. alcocki, B. sua, B. xanthomelas, B. aggregatus, and B. kabiliensis.