Headspot dwarfgoby

Eviota melasma

Fish Reaching Three Centimeters in New Caledonia

Headspot dwarfgoby is known from Western Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Gobies and Allies
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Eviota
Maximum length: 3 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Western Pacific: Australia. Records from other areas may represent different species, from Cocos-Keeling Islands throughout the East Indies; in the south from Bali eastwards to Samoa and New Caledonia and southward to Australia (Scott Reef and the southern Great Barrier Reef); in the north extending to the Yaeyama Islands of Japan and eastward to Micronesia (Palau, FSM - Truk and Enewetak, and the Marshall Islands). Records from Fiji refers to Eviota karaspila .
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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