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First record of the estuarine goby Eutaeniichthys gilli Jordan & Snyder, in Hong Kong

by Andy Cornish

During the sandy shore day of the annual 1^st year undergraduate field trip to Sai Kung, Dr Kenny Leung’s group of students discovered an elongate goby at Starfish Bay. The fish, which was buried under sand well above the tide level has been identified as Eutaeniichthys gilli, a goby noted from Japan as inhabiting the tide pools of estuaries under stones (Masuda et al. 1984). It presumably has special adaptations that allow it to survive for extended periods buried in wet sand. The discovery of this species in Hong Kong represents a significant range extension for this species, which in addition to Japan is only known from the Yellow Sea in China (Huang 2001).

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