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Teleostei (teleosts) > Gobiiformes (Gobies) > Microdesmidae (Wormfishes) > Microdesminae
Etymology: Microdesmus: Greek, mikros = small + Greek, desmos = link (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Chabanaud.

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Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range ? - 10 m (Ref. 10815). Tropical

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Eastern Central Atlantic: the seven known specimens are from Cameroon (2), Fernando Poo (1), and Banana, Democratic Republic of the Congo (4)(Ref. 10815). Also reported from the Chiloango River in Cabinda (Angola)(Ref. 120641).

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Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 10815)

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Dorsal spines (total): 13 - 17. Diagnosis: 47-50 total dorsal fin rays, including 13-17 spines; 26-30 total anal fin rays; anal fin usually originating between verticals from dorsal fin elements 18-20; caudal fin slightly pointed (Ref. 81677). Coloration: body yellowish white, perhaps slightly rosy, with many small brown spots forming numerous vertical bands; bands on more posterior parts of body chevron-shaped, marking arrangement of myomeres; snout and dorsal parts of preoperculum and operculum also mottled with numerous small black spots (Ref. 81677).

Subadults and adults burrow in muddy littoral or estuarine bottoms (Ref. 10815).

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Dawson, C.E., 1990. Microdesmidae. p. 960-961. In J. C. Quéro, J. C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 10815)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 15 July 2014

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00102 (0.00046 - 0.00225), b=3.06 (2.88 - 3.24), in cm total length, based on all LWR estimates for this body shape (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.4 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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