Bright orange fish with four vertical white stripes on the face, and rounded fins.

Lemon goby

Gobiodon citrinus
Where at Shedd?
Wild Reef
Diet Zooplankton and small invertebrates
Size Length: Up to 2.6 inches (6.6 cm)
Type Fishes
Range Around coral reefs in sheltered lagoons in the Indian and West-Central Pacific Oceans
Habitat Found in colonies of the stony coral, Acropora, in the Indian and west-central Pacific Oceans

Did you know?

  1. A lemon goby's body color can vary greatly from bright yellow and yellowish green to an almost-black dark brown.

  2. The lemon gobies routinely lay 20-50 white, transparent eggs.

  3. This fish can produce a toxic mucus.