CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Perciformes (order) » Gobiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 428009 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pseudogobius olorum (Sauvage, 1880)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
	Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: A.R. McCulloch & E.R. Waite, 1918 - Some new and little-known fishes from South Australia Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: A.R. McCulloch & E.R. Waite, 1918 - Some new and little-known fishes from South Australia
Family:	37 428 Gobiidae (Gobies) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Bluespot Goby
Common Names List:	blue-spotted goby Swan River Goby
Organism Type:	a goby
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Freshwater Estuarine
Parent Codes:	37 428975 Pseudogobius spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	428009

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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-09-15.
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 3 m.

Taxon Notes:	Endemic to south-western Australia. Recorded from Murchison River (WA) to the Gulf St Vincent region (SA) including Adelaide and Kangaroo Island. Shallow-water estuarine to freshwater to hypersaline lakes; found in estuaries of rivers, streams and mangroves, at depths of 0–3 m. Hybrid individuals involving this species with P. eos occur in south-east SA (from just east of and including the Murray River estuary and lakes), south-west Victoria (Glenelg River area) and north-west Tasmania (Larson & Hammer, 2021).

Record source:	Larson, H. K., Hammer, M. P., 2021. A revision of the gobiid fish genus Pseudogobius (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Tridentigerinae), with description of seven new species from Australia and South-east Asia, Zootaxa, Vol. 4961, 1: 001-085. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4961.1.1

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