Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Schindleria praematura
Schindler's fish, Floater
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: 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).
- 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.