Schindleria praematura

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

Schindleria praematura, Schindler's fish is a species of neotenic goby which was formerly placed in the monogeneric family Schindleriidae but which is currently classified within the Gobiidae.^[4] It is associated with reefs and has an Indo-Pacific distribution from South Africa and Madagascar to Hawaii and the sea mounts of the South Pacific.^[3] The generic name and the common name honour the German zoologist Otto Schindler (1906–1959) who described the species.^[5]

Schindleria praematura
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Gobiidae
Genus:	Schindleria
Species:	S. praematura
Binomial name
Schindleria praematura Schindler, 1930[2]
Synonyms[3]
Hemiramphus praematurus Schindler, 1930