Genus Awaous Valenciennes, 1837

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External Links

• Awaous Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 12 507 pp. pls 344-368. [97] [many workers regard Valenciennes' usage to be French vernacular; however, Valenciennes indicated that 'one can unite a number of species under the name Awaous, which have a long head etc'; there is no usage of the term 'les Awaous'].

  Type species:

   Gobius ocellaris Broussonet, 1782 by subsequent designation, see Bleeker, P. 1874. Esquisse d'un système naturel des gobioïdes. Archives Néerlandaises des Sciences Naturelles 9: 289-331 [320].

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

GOBIIDAE: Awaous crassilabrus (Günther, 1861) — Watson, R.E. 1994. Awaous (Awaous) acritosus, a new species of freshwater goby from southern New Guinea and northeastern Australia (Teleostei : Gobiidae). Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwater 5(4): 371-376 figs 1-3 [371]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Nov-2019	GOBIIDAE	21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018	GOBIOIDEI	21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
14-May-2015	GOBIOIDEI	21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
		21-Sep-2022	MODIFIED