Banded cleaner goby

The Banded cleaner goby lives in the reef-associated, marine environment.

The banded cleaner goby, Elactinus digueti prefers to reside in rocky crevices. A specialized cleaner, this goby will share its home with moray eels and groupers, carefully picking parasites from their skin, gills and even cleaning their teeth. More

saw one reef octopus, a couple electric rays, a banded cleaner goby on the cheek of a green moray eel and held a guitarfish. I only saw one nudibranch, but it was a beauty. More

Common names

Banded cleaner goby in English
banded cleaning goby in English
cleaner-goby in English
Gobio in sp
Gobio in Spanish (español)
gobio barbero in Spanish (español)
Redhead goby in English
迪氏霓虹鰕虎魚 in Mandarin Chinese
迪氏霓虹鰕虎鱼 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Perciformes
Family : Gobiidae
Genus : Elacatinus
Species : Elacatinus digueti
Authority : Pellegrin, 1901