Loki whip-goby

Bryaninops loki

Goby Facing Coral Bleaching

Loki whip-goby is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Gobies and Allies
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Bryaninops
Maximum length: 4.5 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: in the western Pacific from the Ryukyu Islands south to the Great Barrier Reef, Lord Howe Island, and New Caledonia, east to Fiji and Samoa, and the Hawaiian Islands. Only the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, but other localities are expected. The authors report the species for the Red Sea from a specimen from Sudan, one at Ras Bob on the southeast coast of the Sinai Peninsula, and one from the Seven Brothers Islands in the Gulf of Aden near the southern end of the Red Sea (Ref. 89154 ). Known as widespread in the tropics south to Montague Island (Ref. 9002 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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