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Ammodytidae (Sand lances)
Etymology: Bleekeria: He researched the fishes from India and Malaysia, 1862-1878 (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Dr Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878) was an ichthyologist and army surgeon commissioned (1841) by the Dutch East India Company. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; benthopelagic; depth range ? - 77 m (Ref. 123825). Tropical
Eastern Indian Ocean: Andaman Sea, Myanmar.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 11.4 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 123825)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal soft rays (total): 40 - 41; Anal soft rays: 15 - 16; Vertebrae: 53 - 55. This species is distinguished by the following characters: D 40-41; A 15-16; pectoral-fin rays ii,11,ii; pelvic-fin rays 5; lateral-line scales 106-107; scale rows between the dorsal-fin origin and lateral line 4; gill rakers 6-7+23-24; vertebrae 28-29+25-26; teeth in jaws absent; scales on central part of body clearly shorter than their height; pectoral-fin length 8.0-8.5 in SL; pelvic-fin length 21.3-23.3 in SL; head length 3.4-3.5 in SL; body depth at dorsal-fin origin 8.9-9.3 in SL. Colouration: when fresh, body greyish above, paler below; pectoral fins are pale yellowish; caudal fin brownish yellow basally, blackish medially with tips of upper and lower lobes milky white (Ref. 123825).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Psomadakis, P.N., T. Yoshinaga, Z.Z. Wah and H. Ida, 2021. Description of two new species of sandlances, genus Bleekeria (Perciformes, Ammodytidae) from the Andaman Sea (northeastern Indian Ocean). Zootaxa 4903(3):419-429. (Ref. 123825)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = No PD50 data [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00324 (0.00140 - 0.00746), b=3.07 (2.88 - 3.26), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.2 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
