Species: Coryphopterus venezuelae, Venezuelan goby, Venezuelan sand-goby

Head yellow/gold, body yellowish white; top of head always without central row of dark spots, sometimes with a row of linear dark spots on each side of centerline, those joined by connecting loops of dark dots; top of iris with 5-6 black spots; pupil often with a thin orange outer ring; body with 3 rows of dark marks, some in lower row large, forming Xs in heavily pigmented fish, smaller and circular in pale fish; 3 thin black stripes back from eye to ~level of pectoral, those extend before eye and meet across snout; a white stripe on mid-opercle extends back onto upper pectoral fin base; a large round or triangular dark spot on top corner of operculum, at times another dark spot just behind eye; a dark spot on lower pectoral fin base, sometimes 1-2 stripes or blotches above that; tail fin base with either 2 small, round black spots or a dark grey bar, often C shaped, sometimes split in the middle; dorsal, anal and tail fins with an orange tinge and bluish stripes and edging.