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Callionymidae (Dragonets)
Etymology: Dactylopus: Greek, daktylos = finger + Greek, pous = foot (Ref. 45335); kuiteri: Named in honor of the collector, Rudie H. Kuiter of Seaford, Victoria, Australia (Ref. 35443).
Eponymy: Rudolf ‘Rudie’ Herman Kuiter (d: 1943) is an Australian underwater photographer and aquarist. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on author: Fricke.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecologia
marino demersale; distribuzione batimetrica 3 - 15 m (Ref. 48636). Tropical
Western Central Pacific: Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines.
Size / Peso / Age
Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 48636)
Short description
Chiavi di identificazione | Morfologia | Morfometria
Spine dorsali (totale) : 4; Raggi dorsali molli (totale) : 9; Spine anali: 0; Raggi anali molli: 8. 3 dorsal points on the preopercular spine, the male's first spine of the first dorsal fin longer than the second spine, no filaments in the first dorsal fin, black and orange first and second dorsal fins, and a white head and body with black-edged orange streaks on the head and anterior back (Ref. 35443).
Collected from a sandy bottom (Ref. 35443). May occur solitary or in pairs (Ref. 90102).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve
Fricke, R., 1992. Synchiropus kuiteri, a minute new dragonet (Callionymidae) from Flores, Indonesia. Rev. Fr. Aquariol. 19(3):81-84. (Ref. 35443)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 28.3 - 29.2, mean 28.8 °C (based on 471 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.7500 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00955 (0.00394 - 0.02313), b=2.96 (2.75 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.3 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilienza (Ref.
120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).