Species Eviota sparsa Jewett & Lachner, 1983

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• Eviota sparsa Jewett, S.L. & Lachner, E.A. 1983. Seven new species of the Indo-Pacific genus Eviota (Pisces : Gobiidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 96(4): 780-806 figs 1-13 [802, figs 11-13].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 227483, Tutuila Island, Samoa.
  Paratype(s) AM I.23987–001; AMNH 55055; ANSP 151998; CAS 52832; USNM 210070; USNM 227481; USNM 227483-227485; USNM 260327.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea(12°15'S), Scott Reef, WA and Tijou Reef, QLD (13°04'S) to Sydney, NSW (33°50'S), Ashmore Reef and Lihou Reef, Coral Sea; tropical, east-Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, inshore.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1993. Fishes of Ashmore Reef and Cartier Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 44: 67-91

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. [1647]

Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. [534]

 

Common Name References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [922] (Speckled Dwarfgoby)

Greenfield, D.W. & Winterbottom, R. 2016. A key to the dwarfgoby species (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Eviota) described between 1871 and 2016. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 24: 35-90 [75] (Redspeckled Dwarfgoby)

Myers, R.F. 1989. Micronesian Reef Fishes. Guam : Coral Graphics 298 pp. [237] (Speckled Pygmy Goby)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Sparse Eviota)

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [57] (Sparse Eviota)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Dec-2018	GOBIOIDEI	02-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
14-May-2015	GOBIOIDEI	22-Mar-2012	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED