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Hi plaalye,
thank you for letting us know.

>I don't know Ron?

The only Ron I can imagine knowing how to distinguish Sicyopus exallisquamulus from other similar gobies would be Ronald Watson, one of two ichthyologists who described this species in 2006 ;-)

So this guess may be as close as we can ...

Hi all,
thanks for your help and input, especially odyssey and plaalye!

So, all in all we can´t be sure, but most probably it is either Sicyopus or Lentipes (according to Ron Watson). So I´m sorry I hijacked this thread about Stiphodon with a non-Stiphodon species :(
Therefore I wouldn´t care if ...

Hi plaalye,
thank you very much. The fishes shown in the above link do indeed look like the ones I have photographed.
On the other hand, here we can see Sicyopus jonklaasi aka "Lipstick goby" which looks different to me:
http://www.slendemic.com/easl/fish/other%20fish.html (at the bottom of the ...

Hi,
I could need some help with identification of this Stiphodon sp.
It was imported from Moluccan islands, Indonesia, tradename Stiphodon cf. birdsong. Actual size is about 6 cm, maybe they haven´t reached max. size yet. They are showing intensive territorial behaviour. Not every specimen shows the ...