Meggett'S Goby

Characterized by male with yellowish grey color, densely and diffusely mottled with dusky, bluish whit and dull orange spots; female with dark grey brown color dorsally, paler ventrally, with five large yellowish white blotches dorsally from nape to caudal peduncle; broadly yellow outer part of first dorsal fin in both sexes; upper 5-6 pectoral rays free of membrane; rounded caudal fin; longitudinal scale series 34-40; predorsal scales 14-19, reaching to within half eye diameter of rear edge of eye; cheek and opercle without scales; ctenoid body scales, becoming cycloid on anterior body; depressed head, width greater than depth; depth of body 4.1-4.3 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 8

A common donminant species in the inter-tidal rock=pools of eastern and southerin part of the island and in the upper rocky inter-tidal zone (Ref. 36558).

Inhabits rocky pools of intertidal zone and rocky shores (Ref. 90102). Specimens collected from tide pools of exposed coasts (Ref. 11441). Feeds on planktonic crustaceans, polychaetes and algae (Ref. 36558).

分布於印度-西太平洋區海域，包括日本及臺灣。臺灣發現於南部水域。

小型魚類，不具漁業價值。

體延長，前部分呈圓筒形，後部側扁。背緣與腹緣平直。頭長為體長的1/4~1/5倍。眼居上側位，眼間距小於眼徑。鰓蓋骨上方僅有2個感覺孔(HK, L')，其中H', K'兩孔相癒合成一孔(HK)。吻圓鈍，吻長大於眼徑。口斜裂，上頜、下頜約等長，口裂延伸至眼前緣的下方。胸鰭圓扇形；腹鰭呈吸盤狀；臀鰭與第2背鰭同形，臀鰭基底長小於第2背鰭基底長；尾鰭呈圓形。體呈棕褐色，體側隱具3~4條褐色橫帶或不規則的雲紋。頭背項部具1條褐色短縱線，鰓蓋上方具1列由褐色小斑點組成的點狀縱紋。背鰭淺棕色，具2~3縱列褐色點斑，第一背鰭無暗色縱帶；臀鰭邊緣褐色，基部淺色；胸鰭的游離鰭條的基部具1個小黑斑；腹鰭淺色；尾鰭具3~4行不規則的橫帶；另外第二背鰭、尾鰭密具許多小黑點。香港深鰕虎(/Bathygobius hongkongensis/)為同種異名。(林上智、林沛立編寫 2012/10)

暖水性底層小型魚類，棲息於潮間帶石礫海域。雜食性，以藻類及底棲無脊椎動物為食。