Galapagos Species Database

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Schindleria praematura (Schindler, 1930)

Schindler's fish, Floater

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Gobiiformes

Family
Schindleriidae

Genus
Schindleria

Species
praematura

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Hemiramphus praematurus Schindler, 1930, Schindleria praematurus (Schindler, 1930) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Indo-Pacific from South Africa, Madagascar and India to southern Japan, South China Sea, Australia, Fiji, Marshall Islands, Line Islands, Hawaii, and seamounts of eastern South Pacific (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
  • Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Schindleria praematura", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24808. Accessed 24 May 2025.