Premature Floater, Schindleria praematura (Schindler 1931)

Other Names: Floater

Summary:

A tiny paedomorphic (retains juvenile features as an adult) goby relative with an elongate body,

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Premature Floater, Schindleria praematura (Schindler 1931)

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Distribution	North of Nickol Bay, Western Australia, to Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea, and the Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea, to off Sydney, New South Wales; also Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Indo-west-central Pacific: southern Japan, South China Sea, south to Australia and Papua New Guinea, west to Palau and the Marshall Islands, and possibly Sala y Gómez and Easter Island. The species is pelagic in inshore waters around coral reef lagoons and in adjacent waters, including outer reef slopes, near the bottom over sandy substrates.
Etymology	The specific name is from the Latin praematurus (= premature), in reference to the neotenic form of this fish, which was originally thought to be a sexually mature larval halfbeak.
Species Citation	Hemiramphus praematurus Schindler 1931, Anzeiger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 68(1): 2. Type locality: Pearl and Hermes Reef, Hawaiian Islands.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2024
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Premature Floater, Schindleria praematura (Schindler 1931)

References

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Larson, H.K. & Murdy, E. 2010. Schindleria praematura (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T154836A115240357. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154836A4646866.en. Accessed on 10 April 2024.

Landaeta, M.F. & Castro, L.R. 2002. First record of the paedomorphic goby Schindleria praematura, Easter Island, South Pacific. Journal of Fish Biology 61(1): 289-292.

Ozawa, T. & Matsui, S. 1979. First record of the Schindlerid Fish, Schindleria praematura, from Southern Japan and the South China Sea. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 25(4): 283-285.

Thacker, C. & Grier, H. 2005. Unusual gonad structure in the paedomorphic teleost Schindleria praematura (Teleostei: Gobioidei): a comparison with other gobioid fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 66(2): 378-391.

Watson, W. & Walker, H.J. 2004. The world's smallest vertebrate, Schindleria brevipinguis, a new paedomorphic species in the family Schindleriidae (Perciformes: Gobioidei). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 139-142. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1429

West, K.M., Stat, M., Harvey, E.S., et al. 2020. eDNA metabarcoding survey reveals fine-scale coral reef community variation across a remote, tropical island ecosystem. Molecular Ecology 29: 1069-1086 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15382