Schindleria

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

Schindleria
Schindleria macrodentata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Gobiidae
Genus: Schindleria
Giltay, 1934
Type species
Hemiramphus praematurus
Schindler, 1930
Species

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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.[1] 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),[2] or infantfishes. They are native to the southern Pacific Ocean, from the South China Sea to the Great Barrier Reef off eastern Australia, and Rapa Nui.[3][4]

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