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Semakau Survey 2005
26 June 2005
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Fishes

Latest checklist of marine life on Pulau Semakau
on the wild fact sheets

Family Adrianichthyidae
Javanese ricefish (Oryzias javanicus)

Family Ambassidae
Kops' Glass Perchlet (Ambassis kopsii)
Telkara' Glass Perchlet (Ambassis vachellii)

Family Apogonidae
Humpbacked Mangrove Cardinalfish (Apogon hyalosoma)
Apogon lateralis

Family Chaetodontidae
Kite butterflyfish (Parachaetodon ocellatus) Vulnerable
Copperband Butterflyfish (Chelmon rostratus)1

Family Dasyatidae
Blue-spotted Fantail Ray (Taeniura lymma)

Family Eleotidae
Flathead Gudgeon (Butis butis)
Snakehead Gudgeon (Ophiocara porocephala)
Status as indicated in Ng, P. K. L. & Y. C. Wee, 1994. The Singapore Red Data Book: Threatened Plants and Animals of Singapore.

Endangered: in danger of immediate extinction and survival unlikely if factors causing the decline of the species is not reduced or eliminated.

Vulnerable/Rare: likely to move into the 'endangered' category in the near future if threats to its survival are not reduced or eliminated.

Indeterminate: known to be 'endangered' or 'vulnerable' but there is not enough information to determine precise category.

Family Gerreidae
Slender Mojarra/Silver-biddy (Gerres oyena)

Family Gobiidae
Acentrogobius caninus
Acentrogobius viridipunctatus

Blue-spotted mudskipper (Boleophthalmus boddarti)
Gold-spotted mudskipper (Periophthalmus chrysospilos)
Dusky-gilled mudskipper (Periophthalmus novemradiatus)1a
Silver-lined mudskipper (Periophthalmus argentilineatus)
Polkadot-fin Goby (Exyrias puntang)
Javanese Fatnose Goby (Pseudogobius javanicus)
Shadow Goby (Yongeichthys nebulosus)

Family Haemulidae
Javelin Grunter (Pomadasys kaakan)1a

Family Monacanthidae
Filefish (awaiting identification)1

Family Phallostethidae
One-horned Priapusfish (Neostethus lankesteri)

Family Pseudochromidae
Carpet Eel Blenny (Congrogadus subducens)1

Family Scatophagidae
Spotted Scat (Scatophagus argus)

Family Sillaginidae
Sillago maculatus

Family Syngnathidae
Syngnathoides biaculeatus
Seahorse (Hippocampus sp.)1 Vulnerable

Family Tetraodontidae
Spotted Green Puffer (Tetraodon nigroviridis)

Family Opichthyidae
Reef eel sandfish (awaiting identification)1

1: sighted during other surveys
1a: observations by Subaraj Rajathurai on other surveys

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