Abstract
Priolepis naraharae (Snyder) is a small goby, distributed from Kanagawa Pref. to Okino-erabu I. and to the east coast of South Africa (Prince Akihito, 1984). This species inhabits coral or rocky reefs and is usually found in an upside-down posture on the ceilings of caves.
Among the five species of the genus Priolepis reported from Japan (Prince Akihito, 1984), the embryonic development and larvae of P. semidoliatus and P. boreus were studied by Sonoda and Imai (1971) and Shiogaki and Dotsu (1974), re-spectively (both were mistakenly called Zonogobius in the original papers). In this paper, we de-scribe the development of eggs and larvae of P. naraharae to clarify its early life history and to discuss the morphological characteristics of the present species in comparison with those of the two species previously reported.
