my new flabelligobius.

[LemonLemon]

ok ok so it's not the flashy beautiful black one with the giant sailfin like dorsal, like this one provided by LADD,



but it's a different and unusual other species from the much elusive genus of "Flabelligobius".

I picked up this guy being sold anonymously as other cheap gobies for less than ten dollars and i looked at it and immediately went "Oh M G! it's a Flabelligobius!"

Thing is, i'm not a goby expert and i don't know if it's F. sp, or F. latruncularia. F. latruncularia looks abit similar but with some differences...

If you search flabelligobius on google, there's some pictures of this goby in the wild from a japanese website and it lists it as undescribed.

well almost every species in this genus is undescribed.. a truly enigmatic group of gobies.

so ... wataya guys think? btw it's now paired up with an Alpheus randalli.





i cannot capture the colours properly but it's red and white. the dorsal fin is more ornately coloured.

 

[SDguy]

Awww, just don't let him see the picture of his prettier cousin, and he'll never be the wiser


Very neat purchase!!

 

[LemonLemon]

ha omg funny you should say that! i was just thinking the same!

thanks! i like it alot too and it looks kinda like a red scooter blenny.

 

[SDguy]

And I love that you paired it with a color matching shrimp

 

[AfricaOffroad]

All I see is a frog in an ice cube??????????

 

[LemonLemon]

that's strange..

it seems perfectly fine to me?

 

[LemonLemon]

my friend gave me a name to google called "Tomiyamichthys oni"

apparently it looks identical to the one i have!

so is it flabelligobius sp? or tomiyamichthys?

japanese websites lists it as flabelligobius, while others lists it as Tomiyamichthys!

argh so confusing. my Goby knowledge is soo poor

 

[snorvich]

Well, I am not an expert on gobies but it is pretty to me!