''Schindleria'' is a
genus of
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fish. It was the only genus of
family Schindleriidae, among the
Gobioidei
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Perciformes but is now classified under the
Gobiidae in the
Gobiiformes
The Gobiiformes are an order of fish that includes the gobies and their relatives. The order, which was previously considered a suborder of Perciformes, is made up of about 2,211 species that are divided between seven families. Phylogenetic rel ...
.
The
type species is ''S. praematura'', Schindler's fish. The ''Schindleria'' species are known generically as Schindler's fishes after German zoologist
Otto Schindler (1906–1959), or infantfishes. They are native to the southern
Pacific Ocean, from the
South China Sea to the
Great Barrier Reef off eastern
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Description
The infant fishes are so called because they retain many of their
larval characteristics (an example of
neoteny). Their elongated bodies are
transparent, and many of the bones never develop. ''S. praematura'' reaches a length of . All of the ''Schindleria'' species are
reef fishes. They may be among the most common fish of the reefs, based on the results of
plankton tows, but because of their transparency and small size, they are infrequently seen in life.
A recently described species, the
stout infantfish
''Schindleria brevipinguis'' is a species of marine fish in family Gobiidae of Perciformes. Known as the stout infantfish, it is native to Australia's Great Barrier Reef and to Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea.
Anatomy
''S. brevipinguis'' is among t ...
, ''S. brevipinguis'', was briefly the world's smallest known
vertebrate at 8 mm (about one-third inch), smaller even than the dwarf
gobies, until the new record was set by the 7.9-mm ''
Paedocypris progenetica'' in early 2006 and supplanted by the 7.7-mm frog ''
Paedophryne amauensis'' in 2012.
Apparently several (at least eight) further ''Schindleria'' species, native to the
Ryukyu Islands, are yet to be described formally.
Species
* ''
Schindleria brevipinguis''
Watson & Walker, 2004 (
Stout infantfish
''Schindleria brevipinguis'' is a species of marine fish in family Gobiidae of Perciformes. Known as the stout infantfish, it is native to Australia's Great Barrier Reef and to Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea.
Anatomy
''S. brevipinguis'' is among t ...
)
* ''
Schindleria elongata
''Schindleria'' is a genus of marine fish. It was the only genus of family Schindleriidae, among the Gobioidei of order Perciformes but is now classified under the Gobiidae in the Gobiiformes. The type species is ''S. praematura'', Schindler's ...
''
R. Fricke & Abu El-Regal, 2017 (Elongate paedomorphic goby)
* ''
Schindleria macrodentata''
Ahnelt & Sauberer, 2018
* ''
Schindleria nigropunctata''
Fricke & Abu El-Regal, 2017
* ''
Schindleria parva''
Abu El-Regal, El-Sherbiny, Gabr & Fricke, 2021
* ''
Schindleria pietschmanni''
(Schindler, 1931)
* ''
Schindleria praematura
''Schindleria praematura'', Schindler's fish is a species of neotenic goby which was formerly placed in the monogeneric family Schindleriidae but which is currently classified within the Gobiidae. It is associated with reefs and has an Indo-Pac ...
'' (
Schindler's fish)
(Schindler, 1930)
See also
* "
The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
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Schindleriidae
Gobiidae
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