Xenisthmidae
Sign in to saveCollared wrigglers are perciform fishes in the family Xenisthmidae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, where they are mostly reef-dwelling.
Species
collared wrigglers
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyXenisthmidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Xenisthmidae
- Collections
- USNM, MNHN, UF
- Recorded in
- Marshall Islands, Fidji(I.), Indonesia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Gobiiformes
- Image
- Allomicrodesmus dorotheae.jpg
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- taxon name
- Xenisthmidae
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Xenisthmidae
- Commons category
- Xenisthmidae
- taxon common name
- ヤナギハゼ科
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Collared wrigglers are perciform fishes in the family Xenisthmidae. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, where they are mostly reef-dwelling.
==Species== The 10 species in 7 genera are: Genus Allomicrodesmus Schultz, 1966 Allomicrodesmus dorotheae Schultz, 1966 Genus Gymnoxenisthmus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal, 2014 Gymnoxenisthmus tigrellus Gill, Bogorodsky & Mal, 2014 Genus Kraemericus Kraemericus smithi Menon & Talwar, 1972 Genus Paraxenisthmus Gill & Hoese, 1993 Paraxenisthmus springeri Gill & Hoese, 1993 Genus Rotuma Springer, 1988 Rotuma lewisi Springer, 1988 Genus Tyson Springer, 1983 Tyson belos Springer, 1983 Genus Xenisthmus Snyder, 1908 Xenisthmus africanus Smith, 1958 (the flathead wriggler or African wriggler) Xenisthmus balius Gill & Randall, 1994 Xenisthmus chi Gill & Hoese, 2004 Xenisthmus clarus (Jordan & Seale, 1906) Xenisthmus eirospilus Gill & Hoese, 2004 Xenisthmus polyzonatus (Klunzinger, 1871) (the ''bull's-eye wriggler or polyzonate wriggler'') is peach-coloured with a bull's-eye-like spot on its tail. Xenisthmus semicinctus Gill & Hoese, 2004
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