CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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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 428118 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Eviota oculineata   Tornabene, Greenfield & Erdmann, 2021

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: R. Winterbottom, Royal Ontario Museum - Dept. of Ichthyology and Herpetology
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Rights: R. Winterbottom, Royal Ontario Museum - Dept. of Ichthyology and Herpetology
Family: 37 428 Gobiidae (Gobies) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		Comet Eviota
Organism Type: a goby
Synonyms: Eviota cometa Jewett & Lachner 1983 [in most references prior to 2021]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes: 37 428932     Eviota spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 428118
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19.
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Expected species depth range is from 1 to 40 m.
Taxon Notes:Tornabene et al 2021 reviewed the Eviota zebrina complex describing 4 new species, including Eviota oculineata, which they noted was "currently known only from New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, but likely occurs in Fiji and the Banda Sea, Indonesia, and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, based on live photographs as well as specimens previously identified as E. cometa that possess 8/7 counts in the dorsal/anal fins". The true Eviota cometa is restricted to Fiji & Tonga. Name updated based on Doug Hoese pers. comm. 16 April 2025

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e874673c-3843-46b0-96a5-0fb0406edc9e
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-04-24
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 1345
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:278583
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2025-04-24
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Tornabene, L., Greenfield, D.W. & M.V. Erdmann, 2021. A review of the Eviota zebrina complex, with descriptions of four new species (Teleostei, Gobiidae). , ZooKeys, Vol. 1057: 149-184. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1057.66675
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