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Ptereleotris heteroptera

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia eviotahkl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3577 - 7146 & Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, PO Box 4646, Darwin, Northern Territory 0801, Australia eviotahkl @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3577 - 7146 & United Nations Development Programme, 174 Jor Bagh, New Delhi 110 003, India amurugam. murugan @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0004 - 3344 - 2742

Description

208. Ptereleotris heteroptera (Bleeker)

Eleotris heteropterus Bleeker, 1855: 422 (Rivers, Bandjarmasin, Borneo).

Ptereleotris heteroptera — Rajan et al. 2013: 71 (Andaman and Nicobar islands); Rajan et al. 2021: 119 (Andaman and Nicobar islands); Sreeraj and Sen 2024: 130 (Andaman and Nicobar Islands); Kosygin et al. 2024: 28 (India).

Remarks: Indian records not illustrated (but species is distinctive).

Notes

Published as part of Larson, Helen K., 2026, The gobioid fishes of India-An annotated list, pp. 1-65 in Zootaxa 5801 (1) on page 43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5801.1.1

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bleeker
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Microdesmidae
Genus
Ptereleotris
Species
heteroptera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ptereleotris heteroptera (Bleeker, 1855) sec. Larson, 2026

References

  • Rajan, R., Rajan, P. T., Mishra, S. S., Abdul Raheem, C. N., Shrinivaasu, S., Surendar, C. & Damodhar, A. T. (2021) Fishes of Lakshadweep archipelago: new records, review and a revised checklist. Marine Biodiversity Records, 14, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-021-00208-6
  • Sreeraj, C. R. & Sen, A. (2024) Annotated checklist of the Indian gobioid fishes (order: Gobiiformes). Species, 25 (75), 1-146. https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v25i76.e37s1701
  • Kosygin, L., Mohapatra, A., Bineesh, K. K., Sharma, I., Jadhav, S. S. & Khynriam, D. (2024) Fauna of India Checklist: Pisces. Online Version 1.0. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, 97 pp.