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Common names: Decorated dartfish, Elegant dartfish, Elegant firefish
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Main Ref: Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene, 1990
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Purple firefish, Elegant firegoby, Gobie-flamme maquillé, ... more

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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Microdesmidae (Wormfishes) > Ptereleotrinae
Etymology: Nemateleotris: Name from the combination of the Greek 'nemat' meaning thread, and the eleotrid genus Eleotris.; decora: From the latin word meaning elegant and beautiful..
More on authors: Randall & Allen.

Issue
The Indian Ocean and Red Sea population was previously regarded as a separate species N. exquisita (Ref. 128599).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 25 - 100 m (Ref. 128797), usually 25 - 70 m (Ref. 27115). Tropical; 23°C - 27°C (Ref. 27115); 30°N - 23°S, 30°E - 172°W

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Indo-Pacific: Mauritius to Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 9710)

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Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 27 - 32; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 28 - 31.

Often occurs on deep outer coastal to outer reef drops-offs subject to moderate to strong currents (Refs. 48637, 95112). Found over hard, open bottoms at the bases of reefs and over sand and rubble patches (Refs. 1602, 95112). Often in pairs (Refs. 1602, 95112). Monogamous (Ref. 52884). Feeds on zooplankton, especially copepods and crustacean larvae. Darts into a hole when alarmed (Ref. 1602). Minimum depth reported from Ref. 27115.

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Monogamous mating is observed as both obligate and social (Ref. 52884).

Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Randall, John E. | Collaborators

Tea, Y.-K. and H.K. Larson, 2023. Synopsis of the ptereleotrine goby genus Nemateleotris, with description of a new species from the western and central Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71:248-266. (Ref. 128599)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 12 March 2015

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 23.4 - 28.5, mean 26.9 (based on 225 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5625 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00389 (0.00180 - 0.00842), b=3.12 (2.94 - 3.30), in cm Total Length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.1 ±0.19 se; based on food items.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.

Nemateleotris decora Randall & Allen, 1973