Abstract
Two new species of shrimp goby, genus Amblyeleotris Bleeker, 1852, are described herein from the West Pacific. Amblyeleotris bleekeri, collected from Taiwan, is distinguished from all congeners by the unique combination of the following features: (1) D1VI; D2 I/13; A. I/14; P 19; LR 62–63; (2) V with very low connecting membrane and lacking frenum; and (3) colouration: head and body of pale white background with five brown bands; interspaces of bands with 111‐shaped brown marks; a longitudinal blackish‐brown stripe behind orbit and a dark spot behind upper lip. Amblyeleotris taipinensis, collected from the South China Sea, is distinguished from all congeners by the unique combination of the following features: (1) D1VI; D2 I/13; A I/14; P 19, LR 73–76; (2) V with very low connecting membrane and lacking frenum; and (3) colouration: snow white body with six straw yellow bands and dorsal side with two rows of tiny black spots.
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