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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Perciformes (order) » Gobiidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 37 428009 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Pseudogobius olorum (Sauvage, 1880) |
Rank: | species |
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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). |
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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 |