Kraemeriidae

Kraemeria samoensis

The Kraemeriidae are a family grundelartiger fish which occur in the Indo-Pacific region, especially in the sea, rarely in brackish water or eg Madagascar also in freshwater. The fish often live buried in the sand, so that only looks out of the head in shallow water on sandy soils.

Features

The Kraemeriidae be up to six inches long. Your body is elongate and without scales. The eyes are small, the tongue is bicuspid. The fish have five gill arches. Dorsal and anal fin are not grown together with the caudal fin. The dorsal fin is normally supported by four to six weak hard jets and 13 to 18 soft rays. The pelvic fins have a hard and five soft rays. They are separated at Kraemeria, grown together in Gobitrichinotus.

Genera and species

There are two genera and nine species.

• Gobitrichinotus Fowler, 1943 Gobitrichinotus arnoulti Kiener, 1963
• Gobitrichinotus radiocularis Fowler, 1943

• Kraemeria bryani Schultz, 1941
• Kraemeria cunicularia Rofen, 1958
• Kraemeria galatheaensis Rofen, 1958
• Kraemeria merensis Whitley, 1935
• Kraemeria nuda ( Regan, 1908)
• Kraemeria samoensis Steindachner, 1906
• Kraemeria tongaensis Rofen, 1958