Species Amblyotrypauchen arctocephalus (Alcock, 1890)
Armour Eelgoby, Armour Eel Goby
- Amblyopus arctocephalus Alcock, A.W. 1890. On some undescribed shorefishes from the Bay of Bengal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 6: 425-443 figs 1-3 [432].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZSI F.12926, off Mahanaddi Delta, Bay of Bengal. - Amblyotrypauchen fraseri Hora, S.L. 1924. Notes on fishes in the Indian Museum. VI. On a new genus of gobioid fishes (subfamily Trypaucheninae) with notes on related forms. Records of the Indian Museum 26: 155-163 [160, figs 3-4a].
Type data:
Holotype ZSI F.10819/1, mouth of Hooghly River, India.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Menon, A.G.K. & Yazdani, G.M. 1968. Catalogue of type specimens in the Zoological Survey of India, Part 2, Fishes. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 61(1/2): 91-190 [152]
- Murdy, E.O. 2003. A review of Amblyotrypauchen (Teleostei: Gobiidae), a genus of blind amblyopine gobies. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(2): 330-336 [331]
Generic Combinations
- Amblyotrypauchen arctocephalus (Alcock, 1890). —
Koumans, F.P. 1940. Results of re-examination of types and specimens of gobioid fishes, with notes on the fish fauna of the surroundings of Batavia. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 22: 121-210 [136]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Melville Island (131°10'E) to Gulf of Carpentaria (137°42'E), NT and southern QLD; tropical, east-Indo-west Pacific.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, mud bottom-marine.
General References
Hoese, D.F. & Larson, H.K. 2006. Family Gobiidae. pp. 1612-1697 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [1622]
Koumans, F.P. 1941. Gobioid fishes of India. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 13: 205-329
Common Name References
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Armour Eel Goby)
SSA 2006. Australian Standard Fish Names List. Version 1. July 2006. (Armour Eelgoby)
Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [56] (Armour Eelgoby)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04-Dec-2018 | GOBIOIDEI | 29-Jun-2018 | MODIFIED | Dr Doug Hoese |
| 14-May-2015 | GOBIOIDEI | 11-Apr-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Doug Hoese |
| 30-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |