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as the sand is expelled. It is this specific trait that makes some members of the genus attractive to the marine aquarist, and they are often introduced into a marine aquarium for sand-sifting. Some of the
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the coast of East Africa, the southern Red Sea, the
Maldives, southeast India and Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Australia, western Oceania, and Japan.
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sand-sifters; to eat, they simply engulf entire mouthfuls of sand which they expel through their gills. Specialized structures in their
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for members of the family, this genus also float motionless directly above the substrate, which is why they are sometimes called
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Ashmore Reef, Maldives, and
Seychelles to Oceania, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong, Philippines, and from
Western Australia to Sydney, New South Wales (Australia).
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Ryukyu
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from northern
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widely distributed in the eastern Indian Ocean and western tropical
Pacific.
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known only from
Thailand and Fiji. Recorded from Bali, Indonesia
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There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:
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for extended periods of time. While this is a common
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848:Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 21: 1–9.
703:the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
642:the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
765:the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean
732:the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean
531:the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean
613:Persian Gulf to Masirah Island, central Oman.
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282:. The members of this genus are known to be
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307:. The genus was named after notable French
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418:Australia, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
391:Okinawa, Japan and the Philippines.
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432:Valenciennea helsdingenii
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64:Scientific classification
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512:Valenciennea longipinnis
832:. January 2016 version.
688:Valenciennea sexguttata
456:Valenciennea immaculata
627:Valenciennea puellaris
247:. They are found over
235:small, bottom-dwelling
717:Valenciennea strigata
656:Valenciennea randalli
480:Valenciennea limicola
468:Red-lined sleepergoby
57:Valenciennea strigata
596:Valenciennea persica
540:Valenciennea muralis
415:Decorated glidergoby
312:Achille Valenciennes
746:Valenciennea wardii
400:Valenciennea decora
346:Valenciennea alleni
41:Valenciennea wardii
844:Valenciennea yanoi
820:"Species in genus
774:Valenciennea yanoi
762:Ward's sleepergoby
569:Valenciennea parva
373:Valenciennea bella
361:Allen's glidergoby
170:Valenciennes, 1837
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1036:Open Tree of Life
862:Taxon identifiers
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671:Green-band goby
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984:iNaturalist
894:Wikispecies
639:Maiden goby
334:Common Name
292:crustaceans
284:carnivorous
253:coral reefs
251:, often at
192:Eleotriodes
121:Gobiiformes
1071:Categories
802:References
723:Broussonet
584:Parva goby
552:Mural goby
388:Bella goby
305:monogamous
280:Eleotridae
188:Gill, 1863
779:T. Suzuki
309:zoologist
261:substrate
199:Gergobius
87:Kingdom:
81:Eukaryota
1087:Gobiinae
934:BioLib:
879:Wikidata
829:FishBase
758:), 1867)
752:Playfair
633:Tomiyama
495:Mud goby
265:behavior
245:Gobiidae
177:Synonyms
131:Gobiidae
127:Family:
101:Chordata
97:Phylum:
91:Animalia
77:Domain:
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885:Q136373
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438:Bleeker
318:Species
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255:in the
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148:Bleeker
137:Genus:
117:Order:
107:Class:
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1041:819099
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1049:WoRMS
997:IRMNG
989:92761
950:47182
783:Senou
661:Hoese
601:Hoese
574:Hoese
485:Hoese
462:Y. Ni
405:Hoese
378:Hoese
351:Hoese
328:Image
296:worms
288:gills
231:genus
229:is a
1023:NCBI
1010:ITIS
971:GBIF
963:85Q3
945:BOLD
294:and
238:fish
958:CoL
922:AFD
909:ADW
518:Lay
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