CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 428481 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pseudogobius melanosticta (Day, 1876)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 428 Gobiidae (Gobies) - show full list
Standard Name:	[a 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.

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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 1 m.

Taxon Notes:	Added after records in AFD & Larson & Hammer (2021) from Palm Cove Creek, north of Cairns, Qld. Shallow estuarine to freshwater, found in estuaries of rivers, streams and mangroves. The Palm Cove specimens came from a flowing freshwater creek with pebble and cobble substrate (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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