Exyrias puntang

(Bleeker, 1851)

Puntang Goby

Much of what follows is drawn from a pair of field-trip photo-essays documenting a series of collecting trips between Cairns and Weipa on Cape York, which turned up an extraordinarily rich cross-section of Australia and New Guinea’s smaller estuarine and mangrove-associated gobies.

Described as “amazingly coloured” in the field, Exyrias puntang was photographed in intertidal-zone habitat near Cairns during the second Gobioides trip.

Compiled for Home of the Rainbowfish from ANGFA sources: J. Lenagan, “Cairns to Weipa and back, through a new lens: Part 2. Gobioides of the Wet Tropics”, Fishes of Sahul 34, 2020, pp. 1642–1657.