Abstract
Seventeen specimens of a new species of Gobiodon were collected along with eight specimens of G.quinquestrigatus and three specimens of G.citrinus from the Yaeyama Islands, southernmost islands of Okinawa Prefecture.The new fish is similar to, but different from G. atrangulatus and Pseudogobiodon macrochir, and is named here G.okinawae.Several characteristics of the new species are described, with special reference to the differences from G. quinquestrigatus, G. citrinus, G. atrangulatus, and Pseudogobiodon macrochir.
