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'''Dartfishes''' are a group of fish, formerly considered to be a subfamily, '''Ptereleotrinae''', of ]-like fishes in the family Microdesmidae of the order ],<ref name="fishbase">{{FishBase family | family = Microdesmidae| month = December| year = 2013}}</ref> Authorities now consider the species in the family Microdesmidae are within the ], although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family.<ref name = Nelson5>{{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/ }}</ref> They are saltwater fish.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} |
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'''Dartfishes''' are a group of fish, formerly considered to be a subfamily, '''Ptereleotrinae''', of ]-like fishes in the family Microdesmidae of the order ],<ref name="fishbase">{{FishBase family | family = Microdesmidae| month = December| year = 2013}}</ref> Authorities now consider the species in the family Microdesmidae are within the ], although the researchers do not define the taxonomic status of this grouping within that family.<ref name = Nelson5>{{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 }}</ref> They are saltwater fish.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} |