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Nemateleotris decora Randall & Allen, 1973

Elegant firefish
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> 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 Ecologia

marino associati a barriera corallina; distribuzione batimetrica 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 / Peso / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 9710)

Short description Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria

Spine dorsali (totale) : 7; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 27 - 32; Spine anali: 1; Raggi anali molli: 28 - 31.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

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 | Bibliografia | Coordinatore : Randall, John E. | Collaboratori

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

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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Pesca: commerciale; Acquario: Commerciale
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 23.4 - 28.5, mean 26.9 °C (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.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 129 [65, 228] mg/100g; Iron = 0.861 [0.502, 1.488] mg/100g; Protein = 17.9 [16.7, 19.0] %; Omega3 = 0.104 [0.056, 0.191] g/100g; Selenium = 30.5 [13.3, 66.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 240 [74, 814] μg/100g; Zinc = 2.11 [1.38, 3.03] mg/100g (wet weight);