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Schindleriidae (Infantfishes)
Etymology: Schindleria: Named for ichthyologist Otto Schindler, 1906-1959 (Prof. Dr. Konrad Schindler, pers. comm Dec. 2017); nana: Name from Latin 'nanus’ for dwarf, referring to the small size of this species.
Eponymy: Otto Schindler (1906–1959) was an ichthyologist at Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany, where he was the first post-war Curator of Ichthyology (1949). [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; reef-associated; depth range 6 - 10 m (Ref. 131039). Tropical
Southwestern Pacific: Australia.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 0.9 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 131039)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
This new species is distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: a small-sized species (< 1.0 cm SL) in the long dorsal-fin type (LDF) species group and the first with only a few (4-7) and very large eggs (3.1-3.6% of SL); body elongated, slender, and not pigmented in preserved specimens; tail (postabdominal region) is distinctly shorter than abdomen; origin of the dorsal fin anterior to origin of the anal fin (LDF type); predorsal-fin length 63.1-63.5% of SL; preanal-fin length 71.2-73.0% of SL; body depth at the origin of the anal-fin 5.9-6.6% of SL; head length 14.4-15.6% of SL; head depth 7.8-8.1% of SL; eye diameter 3.3-3.6% of SL and 23.1-26.1% of the head length; pectoral radial plate length 5.6-5.8% of SL; maximum width of the pectoral radial plate 3.2-3.3% of SL and 56.9-57.1% of pectoral radial plate length; depth of the hypural late 66.7% of the urostyle length; D 16; A 13, the first anal-fin ray positioned below the 5-6th dorsal-fin ray; procurrent rays 6; swim-bladder not pigmented; premaxillary with continuous row of small, conical teeth, but zero teeth on the dentary of the holotype or five teeth (right) plus two isolated teeth (left) in the dentary of the paratype (Ref. 131039).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Ahnelt, H., O. Macek and V. Robitzch, 2024. Schindleria nana, a new extremely progenetic gobiid fish species (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. J. Vert. Biol. 73(23112):1-17. (Ref. 131039)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: of no interest
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 2.9 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
