Goby Identification

[lozronz]

hey, already posted this but accidently in newcomers forum (the forum listings swapped since last on)
Any Ideas to what they might be? I bought 4 a while ago sold as fresh water black-line desert sand gobies, very cute and active but I can't identify them properly.

 

[The-Wolf]

I could be just because I'm not fully awake yet
but that looks like some kind of loach to me.
I'm thinking a Nemacheilus of some lind.

 

[Fella]

Female Stiphodon Gobies, probably atropurpureus.

 

[severum boy]

Stiphodon ornatus for sure.

 

[Fella]

Stiphodon ornatus for sure.

For sure?


I had some of these gobiews a while back and struggled for a few days to get them ID'd, in the end I had to use a japanese goby website and the gobygroup on yahoo to get a positive ID, and even then it was only really up to group level.

 

[severum boy]

Well, the Aquarium atlas series (number 2 pg 1098) has a photo matching these gobies exactly. "An Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Aquarium Fish" also has a photo of the sp., but it is slightly darker than the other pictures, but could be down to stress.
I kept an unidentified sp. of Stiphodon a year ago or so and a friend keeps another sp. . From what I can see with regards to body shape and activity, they are a Stiphodon sp. .

But, as for sp. , the educated guess would be ornatus, but the genus is so poorly constructed it could be many things.

 

[lozronz]

Cheers guys, Stiphodon atropurpureus ornatus females are the closest from googling the names you gave me but there seems to be a couple of fish labeled under that name, a mottled looking goby and my ones... Juvenile colours? I'm struggling to find much information other than the absolute basics. Could anyone give me any links?