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GBIF·5209049speciesAnimalia18 occurrence records
  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyGobiidae
  5. ›genusCryptocentrus
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IUCN NE · Not evaluated

blue-speckled prawn goby

Cryptocentrus octofasciatus Regan, 1908

First described in: Regan, C. T. (1908). Report on the marine fishes collected by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in the Indian Ocean. <em>The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Second Series. Zoology.</em> v. 12 (pt 3): 217-255, Pls. 23-32.

This species is catalogued but little written about: there is no encyclopaedia article for it yet. What the world knows is in its records below and in the literature linked under “In the stacks”.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Cryptocentrus octofasciatus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5209049.