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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Gobiesociformes (order)  »  Gobiesocidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 206027 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Melanophorichthys posidonus   Conway, Moore & Summers, 2024

Rank: species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes
Family: 37 206 Gobiesocidae (Clingfishes) - show full list
Standard Name: grass clingfish
Common Names List: grass clingfish
Organism Type: a clingfish
Synonyms: Genus 1 sp. 1, Kuiter 1993 (part): 52 (photograph), 54
Genus C sp. 1 [Hutchins in Gomon et al, 1994, in part; Hutchins in Gomon et al 2008, in part]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
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Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes: 37 206916     Melanophorichthys spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
206027
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2024-12-17.
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Expected species depth range is from 1 to 21 m.
Taxon Notes:Known to date from seagrass and macroalgae along the coasts of Victoria and South Australia. Specimens have been collected from Port Phillip, Corner inlet and along the east coast of Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, and along the coast of Normanville in South Australia. The type locality is a shallow seagrass bed (~2 meters depth) along the coast of Blairgowrie in the southern part of Port Phillip. Beyond these localities, underwater photographs also document the presence of this species in Western Port, Victoria, and from an offshore site of unknown depth in St. Vincent Gulf, South Australia. Known from 1-21m depth (Conway et al 2024).
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Record source: Conway, K.W., Moore, G.I. & Summers, A.P., 2024. A new genus and four new species of seagrass-specialist clingfishes (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from temperate southern Australia., Vol. 5552, 1: 001-066. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5552.1.1
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