Two new species of from Caribbean deep reefs, with comments on the related genus (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Gobiosomatini, Nes subgroup).

Tropical deep reefs (~40-300 m) are diverse ecosystems that serve as habitats for diverse communities of reef-associated fishes. Deep-reef fish communities are taxonomically and ecologically distinct from those on shallow reefs, but like those on shallow reefs, they are home to a species-rich assemblage of small, cryptobenthic reef fishes, including many species from the family Gobiidae (gobies). Here we describe two new species of deep-reef gobies, and , that were collected using the submersible from rariphotic reefs off the island of Roatan (Honduras) in the Caribbean.