Photo: Rickard Zerpe · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 9 cm
- 🌊 reef slopes, sandy bottoms
The fire dartfish is a small, slender goby, white at the front and bright red at the back, with a long, dart-like dorsal fin. It lives in pairs above its burrow and darts into it at the slightest alarm.
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Its burrow is its refuge: it dives into it in a flash at the first sign of danger.
Source: Dive observations
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Poisson de feu.
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