Elacatinus pridisi

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'''''Elacatinus pridisi''''' is a species of [[Gobiidae|goby]] [[Endemism|endemic]] to the islands of [[Trindade and Martin Vaz]] and the [[Seamount|seamounts]] associated to these islands in Brazil.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Guimarães|first1=Ricardo Z. P.|last2=Gasparini|first2=João Luiz|last3=Rocha|first3=Luiz A.|date=2004-12-14|title=A new cleaner goby of the genus Elacatinus (Teleostei: Gobiidae), from Trindade Island, off Brazil|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.770.1.1|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=770|issue=1|pages=1–8|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.770.1.1|issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pinheiro|first1=Hudson T.|last2=Mazzei|first2=Eric|last3=Moura|first3=Rodrigo L.|last4=Amado-Filho|first4=Gilberto M.|last5=Carvalho-Filho|first5=Alfredo|last6=Braga|first6=Adriana C.|last7=Costa|first7=Paulo A. S.|last8=Ferreira|first8=Beatrice P.|last9=Ferreira|first9=Carlos Eduardo L.|last10=Floeter|first10=Sergio R.|last11=Francini-Filho|first11=Ronaldo B.|date=2015-03-04|title=Fish Biodiversity of the Vitória-Trindade Seamount Chain, Southwestern Atlantic: An Updated Database|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=10|issue=3|article-number=e0118180|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0118180|issn=1932-6203|pmc=4349783|pmid=25738798|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1018180P |doi-access=free}}</ref> Like other species of the genus ''[[Elacatinus]]'', it engages in cleaning behavior. However, unlike other cleaners, it lives in association with both sponges and ''[[Montastrea cavernosa]]'' instead of only coral.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Randall|first1=John E.|last2=Lobel|first2=Phiillip S.|date=2009-06-16|title=A literature review of the sponge-dwelling gobiid fishes of the genus Elacatinus from the western Atlantic, with description of two new Caribbean species|url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2133.1.1|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=2133|issue=1|pages=1–19|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2133.1.1|issn=1175-5334|url-access=subscription}}</ref> It was also recorded in association with sea urchins.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Giglio|first1=Vinicius J.|last2=Ternes|first2=Maria L. F.|last3=Barbosa|first3=Moysés C.|last4=Cordeiro|first4=César A. M. M.|last5=Floeter|first5=Sergio R.|last6=Ferreira|first6=Carlos E. L.|date=2018-12-01|title=Reef fish associations with sea urchins in an Atlantic oceanic island|journal=Marine Biodiversity|language=en|volume=48|issue=4|pages=1833–1839|doi=10.1007/s12526-017-0677-4|bibcode=2018MarBd..48.1833G |s2cid=15673437|issn=1867-1624}}</ref>

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[[Category:Elacatinus]] [[Category:Marine fish of Brazil]] [[Category:Fish described in 2004]] [[Category:Taxa named by Luiz A. Rocha]] [[Category:Endemic fish of Brazil]]