Everything about Stout Infantfish totally explained
Schindleria brevipinguis is a
species of
marine fish in
family Schindleriidae of
Perciformes. Known as the
stout infantfish, it's native to
Australia's
Great Barrier Reef and to
Osprey Reef in the
Coral Sea.
S. brevipinguis is the second smallest known
fish and
vertebrate. The species grows to a maximum total length of 8.4
mm (about one-third
inch), with males being mature at a length of 7 mm (just over one-quarter inch); the smallest vertebrate species currently is the recently (Jan. 2006) identified
Paedocypris progenetica, while the parasitic males of the
anglerfish Photocorynus spiniceps are but 6.2 mm "long".
S. brevipinguis is distinguished from the similar
S. praematura by having its first
anal-fin ray further forward, under
dorsal-fin 4, rather than 7–11 in
S. praematura. The body weight is approximately 1 mg (one millionth of a kilogram).
The specific epithet,
brevipinguis, derives from the
Latin brevis (short) and
pinguis (stout), in reference to the fish's shorter, thicker body, as compared with other
Schindleria species.
The first specimen was collected by
Jeff Leis in
1979, but the species wasn't formally described until a
2004 paper (Watson and Walker).
The discovery of
S. brevipinguis relegated to second place the previous smallest known vertebrate,
Trimmatom nanus, a dwarf
goby of the western
Indian Ocean.
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