Blue-band glidergoby
Amazing fact
The blue-band glidergoby has dorsal-fin spines that extend into long filaments.
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The blue-band glidergoby has dorsal-fin spines that extend into long filaments.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blue-band glidergoby
- Scientific name
- Valenciennea strigata
- Japanese name
- アカハチハゼ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Gobiiformes
- Family
- Gobiidae
- Genus
- Valenciennea
Where the name “Blue-band glidergoby” comes from
The scientific name strigata comes from a Latin word meaning striped.
Museums VictoriaIt lives on sandy and rubble bottoms around coral reefs.
It sifts mouthfuls of sand to eat small animals living on the seabed.
It has a yellow head and a blue stripe across its cheek.
How the Blue-band glidergoby lives
It lives in a pair with a regular mate. It is often seen hovering in the water near its burrow. The eggs are laid inside burrows, and the male guards them until they hatch.
Museums VictoriaBasic data
- Range
- Indo-west central Pacific
Where the Blue-band glidergoby has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカハチハゼ
- 简体中文
- 红带范氏塘鳢
- 繁體中文
- 紅帶范氏塘鱧
- Français
- Gobie à raies bleues
- Deutsch
- Goldstirn-Sandgrundel
- Português (Brasil)
- Góbio-papagaio
- Italiano
- Ghiozzo dorato striscia blu
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bekut coreng-biru
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- Museums Victoria — Blueband Glidergoby (Valenciennea strigata)Checked: 2026-11-04
- JAMSTEC BISMaL — Valenciennea strigata アカハチハゼChecked: 2026-11-04
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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