Tetracentrum apogonoides Macleay, 1883
Four-spined glass perchlet
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei (teleosts) > Ovalentaria/misc (Various families in series Ovalentaria) > Ambassidae (Asiatic glassfishes)
Etymology: Tetracentrum: Greek, tetra = four + Latin, brachium = arm + Greek, kentron = sting (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Macleay.
Etymology: Tetracentrum: Greek, tetra = four + Latin, brachium = arm + Greek, kentron = sting (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Macleay.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Freshwater; demersal. Tropical; 23°C - 28°C (Ref. 12468); 9°S - 10°S
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Oceania: known only from Papua New Guinea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2847); common length : 7.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2847)
Max length : 12.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2847); common length : 7.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 2847)
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Main reference
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Yoshigou, H., 2025. Morphological comparison within the glass perchlets genus Ambassis (Osteichthyes: Ovalentalia: Ambassidae), with reference to the comparison of some characters shared with other related genera. Miscellaneous Reports of the Hiwa Museum for Natural History 66:1-47. (Ref. 138911)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Vulnerable (VU) (B1ab(iii)); Date assessed: 02 December 2019
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 0.6250 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
| Bayesian length-weight | a=0.01380 (0.00602 - 0.03167), b=2.98 (2.79 - 3.17), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref. 93245). |
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Trophic level (Ref. 69278) |
3.6 ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
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Resilience (Ref. 120179) |
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
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Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153) |
Low vulnerability (16 of 100). 🛈 |