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Hi plaalye, thank you for letting us know. >I don't know Ron? The only Ron I can imagine knowing how to distinguish Sicyopus exallisquamulus from other similar gobies would be Ronald Watson, one of two ichthyologists who described this species in 2006 ;-) So this guess may be as close as we can get,...

Hi all, thanks for your help and input, especially odyssey and plaalye! So, all in all we can´t be sure, but most probably it is either Sicyopus or Lentipes (according to Ron Watson). So I´m sorry I hijacked this thread about Stiphodon with a non-Stiphodon species :( Therefore I wouldn´t care if thi...

Hi plaalye, thank you very much. The fishes shown in the above link do indeed look like the ones I have photographed. On the other hand, here we can see Sicyopus jonklaasi aka "Lipstick goby" which looks different to me: http://www.slendemic.com/easl/fish/other%20fish.html (at the bottom of the page...

Hi, I could need some help with identification of this Stiphodon sp. It was imported from Moluccan islands, Indonesia, tradename Stiphodon cf. birdsong. Actual size is about 6 cm, maybe they haven´t reached max. size yet. They are showing intensive territorial behaviour. Not every specimen shows the...