CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 428479 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pseudogobius cinctus Larson & Hammer, 2021
Rank:	species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Organism Type:	a goby
Synonyms:	Pseudogobius sp. A ‘banded’—Hammer et al. 2021: 4 (northern Australia, Wyndham to Maningrida [diagnosable at nuclear and mitochondrial markers])
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Freshwater Estuarine
Parent Codes:	37 428975 Pseudogobius spp.

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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-09-14.
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 1 m.

Taxon Notes:	Endemic to northern Australia, known only from northern Western Australia, the Northern Territory and north-west Queensland (Gulf of Carpentaria and western Cape York). Estuarine to freshwater, found in tidal rivers, mangrove creeks and muddy tide-pools, at depths of 0–1m, with substrate of sandy mud, mud and mangrove roots and leaf litter. Typically co-occurs with P. aquilonius and other local Pseudogobius species other than P. jeffi (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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