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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 206044 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Melanophorichthys priscillae   Conway, Moore & Summers, 2024

Rank: species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes
Organism Type: a clingfish
Synonyms: Genus C sp. 1 [Hutchins 1994 - in part - WA form)
Genus C sp. 1 [Hutchins 2008:725–726 - in part - WA form]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes: 37 206916     Melanophorichthys spp.
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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 5 m.
Taxon Notes:Museum specimens are known only from Cockburn Sound (32°04’41”S, 115°43’56”E), WA, but more widespread based on photographs taken by recreational divers and may occur at least as far south as Eagle Bay (~ 33°33′S, 115°03'E, 115.08°E), WA as recorded in an underwater photograph obtained by a recreational diver (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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