WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Jordan, D. S.; Seale, A. (1906). The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. <em>Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries.</em> . 25 (for 1905): 173-455 + index 457-488, Pls. 33-53. [details]
original description
(of Eviota stigmapteron Smith, 1958) Smith, J. L. B. (1958). The fishes of the family Eleotridae in the western Indian Ocean. <em>Ichthyological Bulletin, Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University.</em> 11: 137-163, Pls. 1-3. [details]
basis of record
Smith, J. L. B.; Smith, M. M. (1963). The fishes of Seychelles. 1st edition. <em>Department of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown.</em> i-viii + 1-215, Pls. 1-98. [details]
Ecologyecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Identification resourceidentification resource
Greenfield, D. W.; Randall, J. E. (2016). A review of the dwarfgobies of Fiji, including descriptions of five new species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota). <em>Zenodo.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.48268 [details] Available for editors [request]
Otheradditional source
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source
Gon, O. (1996). Fifty years of fish systematics at the J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology. <em>Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr.</em> 51: 45-78. [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Recorded from the Red Sea, the Maldives, and from eastern Indonesia (Nusa Penida and west
Papua), north to Japan (Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands), east through Micronesia to he Line Islands and across
Polynesia (eastward to Pitcairn Islands), and south to Australia (west coast and southern Great Barrier Reef). In
Fiji, this species was rarely taken at scattered locations mostly around Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Great Astrolabe
Reef, and the Yasawa Group, usually from protected waters such as patch reefs behind a barrier reef. [details]
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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