Ptereleotris kallista, Beautiful Dartfish

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Ptereleotris kallista Randall & Suzuki, 2008

Beautiful Dartfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Microdesmidae (Wormfishes) > Ptereleotrinae
Etymology: Ptereleotris: Greek, pteron = wing, fin + The name of a Nile fish, eleotris (Ref. 45335);  kallista: Name from a Greek word meaning most beautiful..
More on authors: Randall & Suzuki.

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

Marine; reef-associated. Tropical

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Western Pacific: Philippines.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 75638); 8.4 cm SL (female)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 27; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 25; Vertebrae: 26. This species is characterized by the following: D VI + I, 27; A I, 25; pectoral rays 23 or 24; cycloid scales extremely small, about 190 near-vertical rows in longitudinal series; gill rakers 7-8 + 16-17; body depth 6.6-6.65 in SL; head length 4.65-4.7 in SL; chin has a low median fleshy ridge, narrowing posteriorly to a thin convoluted ridge; first dorsal fin about twice height of second dorsal, the second to sixth spines filamentous, doubling height of fin; fourth spine longest, 1.95-2.05 in SL; caudal fin asymmetrically rounded, the dorsal half more posterior, 5.05-5.1in SL; pelvic fins 3.95-4.1 in SL; alcohol preserved color pale gray, with dusky bands on head and a small square blackish spot dorsoposteriorly on opercle dorsal and anal fins faintly striped, the first dorsal only basally, the anal with a submarginal blackish band; caudal fin with a broad submarginal black arc over middle three-fourths of fin; body color in life is mainly white; side of head with blue and yellow (Ref. 75638).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Randall, J.E. and T. Suzuki, 2008. Three new species of dartfishes of the gobioid genus Ptereleotris from the western Pacific. aqua, Int. J. Ichthyol. 14(2):89-100. (Ref. 75638)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Data deficient (DD) ; Date assessed: 02 March 2017

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [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):  3.3   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).