Sueviota bryozophila

Pair of bryozoan gobies Ned DeLoach BlennyWatcher.com

A Bryozoan Goby and More!

May 27, 2013

Update April 2016 ~ The paper describing the little Bryozoan Goby was published this month in the Journal of Ocean Science.  It is  named Sueviota bryozophila. The paper by scientists, Gerald R. Allen, Mark V. Erdmann,  and N.K. Dita Cahyani, is titled “Sueviota bryozophila, a new species of coral-reef goby from Indonesia (Teleostei: Gobiidae)”, and is available online from the Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation.  With this goby, the genus Sueviota has five species. The Latinized species name, bryozophila, means bryozoan-loving.  Since we wrote about this … Read more