Ornate prawn-goby
Vanderhorstia ornatissima
- Usual depth1–15 m
- Water temperature22–30 °C
- Best monthsApril
- How commonRare
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 0 records
- February: 3 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 17 records
- May: 4 records
- June: 3 records
- July: 2 records
- August: 9 records
- September: 6 records
- October: 10 records
- November: 10 records
- December: 1 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 1–15 m · Deepest record: 32.5 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 22–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Ornate prawn-goby, Blue-barred Shrimp-goby, Ocellated Goby, Ocellate Goby, ornate prawn-goby, Ornate Shrimpgoby
Names in 3 more languages
- French
- Gobie orné
- Japanese
- ヤツシハゼ
- Simplified Chinese
- 黃點梵鰕虎, 黃點梵鰕虎魚
Similar species
- Ambanoro Goby
Vanderhorstia ambanoro
- Bigfin Shrimpgoby
Vanderhorstia macropteryx
- Common goby
Pomatoschistus microps
Black-chest Shrimp-gobyAmblyeleotris guttata
Steinitz' gobyAmblyeleotris steinitzi
Barred ShrimpgobyAmblyeleotris wheeleri
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 130 open-data records from 1950 to 2023.
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