White with dark bars and a bright yellow face, sharing a burrow with a red-and-white snapping shrimp.
A small hovering shrimpgoby, white with four or five broad dark bars running down and back across the body, and an orange-yellow snout and forehead that give it its name. It hangs a little above the burrow mouth rather than resting on the bottom, which is how it is told at a glance from the ground-sitting shrimpgobies around it.
The partner is Alpheus randalli, the same red-and-white banded snapping shrimp that works with the black-ray shrimpgoby and the yasha goby. The shrimp is effectively blind and keeps an antenna on the fish at all times; the fish provides the eyes. Both animals will be gone before you have finished framing if the approach is careless.
Compare the black-ray shrimpgoby, which has a similar build but a long black first dorsal filament and a yellow cap rather than a yellow snout, and the yasha goby, which is white with orange bars. All three occur on the same slopes and are regularly confused in photographs.
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.
