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Eviota algida Greenfield & Erdmann, 2014

Upwelling dwarfgoby
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Eviota algida
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Indonesia country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Type locality. This species was only collected from Gamat Bay, Nusa Penida Island, Bali. Photographed approximately 950 km to the east at Beangabang Bay, Pantar and likely distributed along the entire Lesser Sunda Island chain in reef habitats exposed to cold-water upwelling along the eastern Indian Ocean coastlines (Ref. 97683).
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Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/id.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Greenfield, D.W. and M.V. Erdmann, 2014
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Gobiidae (Gobies) > Gobiinae
Etymology: Eviota: No etymology given, suggested by Christopher Scharpt: from Latin 'eu' for 'true' and 'iota' for anything very small, in combination 'truly very small' referring to it as being the smallest vertebrate at the time it has benn described by Jenkins (thus, making the suggestion by Scharpt plausible.;  algida: Name from Latin 'algidus' meaning cold; referring to this species being found in the cooler, deep upwelling waters (a first/second declension feminine adjective)..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 30 - 32 m (Ref. 97683).   Tropical

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