Valenciennea randalli
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| Valenciennea randalli | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Gobiidae |
| Genus: | Valenciennea |
| Species: | V. randalli |
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| Valenciennea randalli | |
Valenciennea ranalli, known as the greenband goby and green-band sleeper-goby, is a species of goby native to the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean.
Valenciennea randalli was first described by Douglass F. Hoese and Helen K. Larson in 1994. A goby, it is classified in the family Gobiidae of order Gobiiformes.[2] It is also known by the common names greenband goby and green-band sleeper-goby.[1][3]
The holotype, BPBM I 32000, was collected from Honiara, Solomon Islands, and is housed at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, US.[4] The generic name, Valenciennea, honors zoologist Achille Valenciennes, while the specific name, randalli, honors ichthyologist John E. Randall.[5] It is one of 16 species in the genus Valenciennea, all of which are found in the Indo-Pacific.[6]
Distribution and habitat
V. randalli is native to the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean, including the Andaman Sea, the Great Barrier Reef, the Ryukyu Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Solomon Islands, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Taiwan, Fiji, Palau, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, and Malaysia. It prefers estuaries, reefs, and lagoons with silty or muddy substrates, where it lives in burrows at a depth of 5–55 metres (16–180 ft). It is a marine fish though it is tolerant of brackish water.[1][2]