Schindleria praematura

This article is about a species of fish. For the song "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)" by the rock group Yes, see Fragile (Yes album).

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.^[4] It is associated with reefs and has an Indo-Pacific distribution from South Africa and Madagascar to Hawaii and the sea mounts of the South Pacific.^[3] The generic name and the common name honour the German zoologist Otto Schindler (1906–1959) who described the species.^[5]

Schindleria praematura
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Schindleria
Species:	S. praematura
Binomial name
Schindleria praematura Schindler, 1930[2]
Synonyms[3]
Hemiramphus praematurus Schindler, 1930

References

1. Larson, H.K. & Murdy, E. (2017) [errata version of 2010 assessment]. "Schindleria praematura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T154836A4646866. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T154836A4646866.en.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Schindleria praematura". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Schindleria praematura". FishBase. June 2018 version.
4. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. p. 752. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
5. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (24 July 2018). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family GOBIIDAE (r-z)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 17 August 2018.