Dwarf Floater, Schindleria nana Ahnelt, Macek & Robitzch 2024

Summary:

In preservative, a uniformly yellowish floater with a translucent ventral surface and fins, and black eyes.

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Bray, D.J. 2025, Schindleria nana in Fishes of Australia, accessed 27 Jun 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5730

Dwarf Floater, Schindleria nana Ahnelt, Macek & Robitzch 2024

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Distribution	Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland.
Features	Dorsal fin 16; Anal fin 11-12. Body elongate, narrow; dorsal fin longer than the anal fin (predorsal-fin length 63.3% of SL: preanal-fin length 72.1% of SL); head long, relatively narrow (head width 46.2% of head length) with a straight profile; eyes small, round (24.9% of head length); postorbital distance large (52% of head length); pectoral radial plate narrow, slender (width at origin 46.4%, maximum width 57.0% of pectoral radial plate length); first anal-fin ray ventral to the sixth dorsal-fin ray; six procurrent rays gradually increasing in length, last ray elongated, twice the length of the penultimate ray; premaxilla with tiny, conical, densely set teeth; dentary with zero teeth in the holotype and with two teeth on the left dentary and five teeth on the right dentary in the adult paratype; females with few (approx. 4-7) but very large eggs (3.4-3.9% of SL); urogenital papilla inconspicuous, de facto just an urogenital opening; swim bladder not pigmented; black eyes; no other external pigmentation on the body.
Etymology	The specific name is from the Latin nanus (= dwarf) in reference to the small size of this species.
Species Citation	Schlindleria nana Ahnelt, Macek & Robitzch 2024, Journal of Vertebrate Biology 73: Figs 3,4,5A, 6. Type locality: Australia, Queensland, Great Barrier Reef, Lizard Island in the lagoon ‘Lizard Island Reef’, 14°41’ S, 145°27’ E.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2025
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Dwarf Floater, Schindleria nana Ahnelt, Macek & Robitzch 2024

References

Ahnelt, H., Macek, O. & Robitzch, V. 2024. Schindleria nana, a new extremely progenetic gobiid fish species (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Biology 73: 23112 https://doi.org/10.25225/jvb.23112