Rudie Hermann Kuiter, Aquatic Photographics, Australien
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Pleurosicya annandalei is a semi-transparent, slightly pink-colored small goby with a dark spot at the base of the first dorsal fin.
This dwarf goby inhabits coastal reef slopes, where it lives on soft corals together with sponges, reef corals, tunicates, seaweed leaves, green algae, and sometimes mussels.
The holotype was collected from the gorgonian Solenocaulon tortuosum Gray, 1862.
Around Okinawa, Japan, Pleurosicya annandalei lives commensally with the sea squirt Pterygascidia longa (Van Name, 1918).
The species was named in honor of zoologist and anthropologist Thomas Nelson Annandale, director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, “in recognition of his work on Indian fish.”
Etymology:
The genus name Pleurosicya comes from the Greek, “pleura” = side, rib + “sikya, -as” = cucumber.
Naming: of the species name:
Dr. “Thomas” Nelson Annandale (1876–1924) was a zoologist (primarily an entomologist and herpetologist) and anthropologist who became superintendent of the Indian Museum in Calcutta.
Note:
The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium shows a yellowish-gold, semi-transparent goby on its website with the name Pleurosicya annandalei:
https://churaumi.okinawa/sp/en/topics/1756952103/
This dwarf goby inhabits coastal reef slopes, where it lives on soft corals together with sponges, reef corals, tunicates, seaweed leaves, green algae, and sometimes mussels.
The holotype was collected from the gorgonian Solenocaulon tortuosum Gray, 1862.
Around Okinawa, Japan, Pleurosicya annandalei lives commensally with the sea squirt Pterygascidia longa (Van Name, 1918).
The species was named in honor of zoologist and anthropologist Thomas Nelson Annandale, director of the Indian Museum in Calcutta, “in recognition of his work on Indian fish.”
Etymology:
The genus name Pleurosicya comes from the Greek, “pleura” = side, rib + “sikya, -as” = cucumber.
Naming: of the species name:
Dr. “Thomas” Nelson Annandale (1876–1924) was a zoologist (primarily an entomologist and herpetologist) and anthropologist who became superintendent of the Indian Museum in Calcutta.
Note:
The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium shows a yellowish-gold, semi-transparent goby on its website with the name Pleurosicya annandalei:
https://churaumi.okinawa/sp/en/topics/1756952103/
