Sandburrower

Tewara cranwellae

Sand cave fish ( Creediidae ) are small, only 2.3 to 8 centimeters long fish that live in the Indo-Pacific from South Africa to Hawaii and Easter Island.

Features

They are elongated, the long dorsal fin has 13-43 soft rays undivided. The anal fin is long, the pelvic fins are constantly breast ( absent in Apodocreedia ). Some species are almost no scales, but the scales along the lateral line organ are always present.

Species

There are seven genera and 18 species:

  • Apodocreedia de Beaufort, 1948 Apodocreedia vanderhorsti de Beaufort, 1948.
  • Chalixodytes chameleontoculis Smith, 1957.
  • Chalixodytes tauensis Schultz, 1943.
  • Creedia alleni Nelson, 1983.
  • Creedia bilineatus Shimada & Yoshino, 1987.
  • Creedia haswelli ( Ramsay, 1881).
  • Creedia partimsquamigera Nelson, 1983.
  • Crystallodytes cookei Fowler, 1923.
  • Crystallodytes pauciradiatus Nelson & Randall, 1985.
  • Limnichthys soni Donald Schultz, 1960.
  • Myopsaron nelsoni Shibukawa, 2010.
  • Limnichthys fasciatus Waite, 1904.
  • Limnichthys nitidus Smith, 1958.
  • Limnichthys orientalis Yoshino, Kon & Okabe, 1999.
  • Limnichthys polyactis Nelson, 1978.
  • Limnichthys rendahli Parrott, 1958.
  • Schizochirus insolens Waite, 1904.
  • Tewara cranwellae Griffin, 1933.
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