Holds a huge banded dorsal fin upright with a false eye at the top of it.
A shrimpgoby to about 10 cm, cream to white crossed by six or seven orange-brown bars, with a first dorsal fin that is disproportionately tall and rounded, banded in orange and white and carrying a large dark ocellus near its upper rear edge. The fin is held erect for long periods rather than flicked, which separates this species at a distance from the other barred shrimpgobies here.
Shares a burrow with a snapping shrimp, which digs and maintains it while the goby watches from the entrance; the shrimp keeps an antenna on the goby and reads its signals. Usually in pairs. It is a deeper species than most of the shrimpgobies on a muck slope, generally below 15 m and often much deeper, on clean coarse sand and shell rubble. Recorded to about 50 m. The false eye on the dorsal fin sits at the end of the fish furthest from its head, which is the usual arrangement and the usual explanation for one.
Ratings are per location: 1 means found on most dives that look for it, 5 means a handful of records. Where enough dives have been logged the figure is calculated from them; otherwise it is an editorial estimate, and says so. We publish habitat and destination, not the dive site.
