Dartfish

{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}}

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{{Automatic Taxobox

| name = Dartfishes

| image = Nemateleotris magnifica.jpg

| image_caption = Nemateleotris magnifica

| taxon = Ptereleotrinae

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• Aioliops
• Navigobius
• Nemateleotris
• Oxymetopon
• Parioglossus
• Ptereleotris
• Pterocerdale
• Zagadkogobius Prokofiev, A.M. (2017): [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS003294521701009X New Genus of Ptereleotrinae (Gobioidei) from the South China Sea.] Journal of Ichthyology, 57 (1): 158–160.

}}

Dartfishes are a group of fish, formerly considered to be a subfamily, Ptereleotrinae, of goby-like fishes in the family Microdesmidae of the order Gobiiformes,{{FishBase family | family = Microdesmidae| month = December| year = 2013}} Authorities now consider the species in the family Microdesmidae are within the Gobiidae, although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family.{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=752 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2018-08-19 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }} They are saltwater fish.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}

Image:Oxymetopon_cyanoctenosum.jpg