Species Atherinomorus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

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Species Atherinomorus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

Common Hardyhead, Hardyhead, Marine Hardyhead, Ogilby's Hardyhead, Ogilby's Silverside

Atherina vaigiensis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1825. Chapter 9. Poissons. pp. 329-401 pls 43-65 in Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, entrepris par orde du Roi, sous le Ministère et conformément aux instructions de S. Exc. M. le Vicomte de Boucharge, secrétaire d'État au Département de la Marine exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendent les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820; publié sous les auspices de S.E.M. le Conte Corbière, secrétaire d'État de l'Intérieur, pour la partie historique et les sciences naturelles, et de S.E.M. le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, Secrétaire d'État de la Marine et des Colonies, pour la partie nautique; par M. Louis Freycinet, etc. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 + atlas iv 712 pp. [published in parts Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. Part I. Amérique meridionale; Indes orientales; Pôle Sud (Astrolabe and Zélée); La Bonite; La Coquille; and L'Uranie et La Physcienne. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(7): 388–392 [392]] [335].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP A.4408, Waigiou (= Waigeo, Indonesia); probably erroneous.
Type locality references:
Kimura, S., Iwatsuki, Y. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Validity of the atherinid fish, Atherinomorus vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825), with comments on its synonymy. Ichthyological Research 48: 379-384 [382] (noted that the type is much shorter than given in the original description and that species is not known from Indonesia and suggested that the specimen probably came from Sydney or Shark Bay, WA).
Pranesus ogilbyi Whitley, G.P. 1930. Ichthyological miscellanea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10(1): 8-31 fig. 1 pl. 1 [9] [after Atherina pinguis in Ogilby, J.D. 1912. On some Queensland fishes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 1: 26–65 2 figs pls 13–14 [37 pl. 2 fig. 1]].
Type data:
Syntype(s) QM I.769 (Whitley 1930 indicated that the type was the specimen illustrated and it is likely that a holotype exists), Moreton Bay, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Kimura, S., Iwatsuki, Y. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Validity of the atherinid fish, Atherinomorus vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825), with comments on its synonymy. Ichthyological Research 48: 379-384 [380]

Generic Combinations

Atherinomorus ogilbyi (Whitley, 1930). —
Potter, I.C., Ivantsoff, W., Cameron, R. & Minnard, J. 1986. Life cycles and distribution of atherinids in the marine and estuarine waters of southern Australia. Hydrobiologia 139: 23-40 [23]
Ivantsoff, W. & Crowley, L.E.L.M. 1991. Review of the Australian silverside fishes of the genus Atherinomorus (Atherinidae). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 42: 479-505 figs 1-5 [498]
Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [68]
Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. [64]
Atherinomorus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825). —
Kimura, S., Iwatsuki, Y. & Yoshino, T. 2001. Validity of the atherinid fish, Atherinomorus vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825), with comments on its synonymy. Ichthyological Research 48: 379-384 [379]

Introduction

Recently removed from synonymy with Atherinomorus lacunosus (Kimura et al 2001). Also widely referred to as Pranesus ogilbyi, a junior synonym of A. vaigiensis. Tentatively we accept Atherinomorus ogilbyi as a synonym of Atherinomorus vaigiensis. However, it should be noted that Ivantsoff & Crowley (1999) regarded Atherinomorus ogilbyi as a subtropical species from eastern and western Australia, but replaced by A. lacunosus (considered a senior synonym of A. vaigiensis) in northern Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Flinders Bay, WA (34º21´S) to Darwin, NT (130º54´E), WA and east of Bowen, QLD (20º06´S) to Narooma, NSW (36º13´S); tropical, temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)