Fish ID

James Cardwell · Aug 27, 2018

Im not sure what this fish is?
Hoping someone can ID.

Thanks

eatbreakfast · Aug 27, 2018

@Chasmodes

LobsterOfJustice · Aug 27, 2018

Did you collect it yourself? If so, what part of the world?

James Cardwell · Aug 27, 2018

No i didnt collect it myself. It is at a local fish store.

Maritimer · Aug 27, 2018

Certainly a goby, but beyond that ... I got nothin'.

~Bruce

ChiCity · Aug 27, 2018

Looks like something similar to a crested oyster goby, but obviously a much lighter color and totally different markings.
But the shape of the body is spot on to a crested oyster goby

eatbreakfast · Aug 28, 2018

It's definitely a goby, so that only narrows it down to a few thousand choices. It looks similar to some Cryptocentroides species, so maybe a closely related genera.

Chasmodes · Aug 28, 2018

Did the LFS say where it was from? What did they label it or call it?

James Cardwell · Aug 28, 2018

The LFS is not sure. LFS thing it might be a randell goby buy it looks nothing like one. I will look at crested oyster goby and do some more reseache myself.

James Cardwell · Aug 28, 2018

ChiCity said:
Looks like something similar to a crested oyster goby, but obviously a much lighter color and totally different markings.
But the shape of the body is spot on to a crested oyster goby

Thank you

Chasmodes · Aug 28, 2018

Also, how long was it?

James Cardwell · Aug 28, 2018

About 3 inches long

Chasmodes · Aug 28, 2018

Sorry James, I haven't been able to identify it yet. Any chance you can get better pics showing all of the fins (hopefully extended)? A close up of the dorsal fins and caudal fin showing ray counts might help too. The markings on this fish are quite unique. I wonder if it has another color phase, because so far, nobody seems to have captured a pic of it except you! Maybe it's a new species?

James Cardwell · Aug 28, 2018

Chasmodes said:
Sorry James, I haven't been able to identify it yet. Any chance you can get better pics showing all of the fins (hopefully extended)? A close up of the dorsal fins and caudal fin showing ray counts might help too. The markings on this fish are quite unique. I wonder if it has another color phase, because so far, nobody seems to have captured a pic of it except you! Maybe it's a new species?

I will try to get some more pictures. I will post them up in a few days.
That will be cool if it is a new species.
Thank you for all the help.

joetbs · Aug 28, 2018

Probably came in as an assorted goby from Indo or Philippines. I would lean towards Genus like Istigobius or Bathygobius but very hard to ID exactly. Could even be a brackish water fish like the Cresteds are.

James Cardwell · Aug 28, 2018

joetbs said:
Probably came in as an assorted goby from Indo or Philippines. I would lean towards Genus like Istigobius or Bathygobius but very hard to ID exactly. Could even be a brackish water fish like the Cresteds are.

Thanks to everyone for all of the information.