Microdesmidae

Lavender-blushed dartfish

Nemateleotris lavandula

Microdesmid Fish beneath the Pacific Ocean

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Small
• Tropical fish

Nemateleotris lavandula, known by lavender-blushed dartfish, is a species of dartfish which was described in 2023 on the basis of the holotype from Augulupelu Reef, Palau, and twelve paratypes from across the western and central Pacific Ocean, including Fiji, Guam, Japan, and the Marshall Islands. It was previously confused with the Helfrich's dartfish (Nemateleotris helfrichi).