Gobiidae

Hale's drombus

Drombus halei

Goby beneath the Eastern Indian Ocean

• Tropical
• Continental endemic
• Local endemic species
• Restricted distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Oceania
• Tropical fish

Drombus halei, Hale's drombus, is a species of ray-finned fish from the family Gobiidae. It is found in the warmer waters of Australia from Shark Bay, Western Australia, to Shoalwater Bay, Queensland. where it occurs around shallow inshore rocky and coral-rock reefs, where there are areas which have sea beds consisting of sand, rubble and sandy-mud, it can also sometimes be found in estuaries and near mangroves.