Species Galaxias brevipinnis Günther, 1866
Climbing Galaxias, Broad-finned Galaxias, Cox's Mountain Galaxias, Cox's Mountain Trout, Lake Trout, Lowland Galaxias, Mersey Jollytail, Mountain Trout, Pieman Galaxias, Pieman Jollytail, Short-fin Galaxias, St. Claire Trout
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1853.2.14.5–7 (3), New Zealand.- Galaxias coxii Macleay, W.J. 1880. Description of a new species of Galaxias from Mt Wilson with remarks on the distribution of the genus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 5(1): 45-47 [45].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM I.16262–001 (3) (ex MMUS F87 - originally 3 specimens now 21 specimens in jar), small rivulet on or near the summit of Mount Wilson, NSW. - Galaxias atkinsoni Johnston, R.M. 1883. General and critical observations on fishes of Tasmania with a classified catalogue of all known species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 53-144 [131].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Pieman River, TAS. - Galaxias weedoni Johnston, R.M. 1883. General and critical observations on fishes of Tasmania with a classified catalogue of all known species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1882: 53-144 [131].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (figured in Whitley, G.P. 1929. R.M. Johnston's memoranda relating to the fishes of Tasmania. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1928: 44–68 pls 2–4 [pl. 2(1)]), Mersey River, TAS. - Galaxias nigothoruk Lucas, A.H.S. 1892. A new species of freshwater fish from Lake Nigothoruk, Mount Wellington, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria ns 4(1): 27-28 [27].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV A.408–411 (4), Lake Nigothoruk [Lake Tali Karng], above the head of the Wellington River, Gippsland, VIC; BMNH 1891.9.24.44, Lake Nigothoruk [Lake Tali Karng], above the head of the Wellington River, Gippsland, VIC. - Galaxias affinis Regan, C.T. 1906. A revision of the fishes of the family Galaxiidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1905(2, 2): 363-384 figs 10-13 [380, pl. 10(1)] [date on title page of journal number].
Type data:
Syntype(s) AM I.7435 (possible syntypes from BMNH), Lake St. Clair, TAS; BMNH 1893.6.15.12–14 (3) (originally 4 specimens listed), Lake St Clair, TAS. - Galaxias (Galaxias) parkeri Scott, E.O.G. 1936. Observations on fishes of the family Galaxiidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 85-112 figs 1-4 [99, fig. 3].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1937.4.3.1, Great Lake, about off Howell's Neck, TAS.
Paratype(s) BMNH 1937.4.3.2-10 (9), streams running into the Great Lake at northern end (Little Lake), near Duck Point, and at Reynold's Neck; AM IA.6414 (4), collected with BMNH 1937.4.3.2-10; QVM 1971.5.20-23 (6) (ex QVM PT 950 a,b), collected with BMNH 1937.4.3.2-10; BMNH 1966.5.6.1, collected with BMNH 1937.4.3.2-10.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- McDowall, R.M. & Frankenberg, R.S. 1981. The galaxiid fishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 33(10): 443-605 figs 1-47 [456]
Introduction
Raadik (2011) in a comprehensive study of the Galaxias olidus cryptic species complex, determined that Galaxias brevipinnis is also a cryptic species complex comprising at least three taxa (see also Raadik 2005). The species is becoming widespread in catchments of the upper Murray River, and mid-upper Murrumbidgee River due to inter-basin transfer of water.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
In streams draining east and south from the Great Dividing Range, from the Hunter/Williams River system, NSW (32°13'S, 151°43'E), to north of Port Lincoln (34º35'S, 135º52´E) and Kangaroo Island, SA, also Flinders Island and King Island, Bass Strait, and widespread in TAS; temperate, south-west Pacific (New Zealand including Chatham, Auckland and Campbell islands).
IBRA
NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
IMCRA
Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Distribution References
- Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [96]
- Hammer, M.P., Adams, M. & Foster, R. 2012. Update to the catalogue of South Australian freshwater fishes (Petromyzontida & Actinopterygii). Zootaxa 3593: 59–74 [63]
- McDowall, R.M. & Fulton, W. 1996. Chapter 10. Family Galaxiidae — galaxiids. pp. 52-77 in McDowall, R.M. (ed.). Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : Reed Books 247 pp. [54]
- Raadik, T.A. 1992. Distribution of freshwater fishes in east Gippsland, Victoria, 1967–1991. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 104: 1-22 [9]
- Raadik, T.A. 2006. Chapter 13. Freshwater fishes. pp. 133-148 in Museum Victoria and CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne's Wildlife. A Field Guide to the Fauna of Greater Melbourne. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 348 pp. [137]
Ecological Descriptors
Estuary, freshwater, inshore, marine.
Extra Ecological Information
Migratory, can climb over moist surfaces out of the water
General References
Chilcott, S. J. & Humphries, P. 1996. Freshwater fish of northeast Tasmania with notes on the dwarf galaxias. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 103: 145-149 [145]
Hammer, M.P., Adams, M. & Foster, R. 2012. Update to the catalogue of South Australian freshwater fishes (Petromyzontida & Actinopterygii). Zootaxa 3593: 59–74 [63]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [48] (as G. weedoni, as G. coxii and G. affinis)
McDowall, R.M. 1994. Families Retropinnidae, Prototroctidae, Galaxiidae. pp. 232-239 figs 207-212 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [235]
McDowall, R.M. 2006. Crying wolf, crying foul, or crying shame: alien salmonids and a biodiversity crisis in the southern cool-temperate galaxioid fishes? Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 16: 233-422 [289]
McDowall, R.M. & Fulton, W. 1996. Chapter 10. Family Galaxiidae — galaxiids. pp. 52-77 in McDowall, R.M. (ed.). Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : Reed Books 247 pp. [53]
McDowall, R.M. & Stewart, A.L. 2015. Family Galaxiidae. pp. 383-408 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576. [389]
Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [34] (235, as Galaxias weedoni, 236, as G. parkeri and p. 35, 242 as G. coxii, 243, as G. affinis)
Paxton, J.R., Allen, G.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Galaxiidae. pp. 402-411 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. [404]
Raadik, T.A. 2005. Dorrigo Plateau – a biodiversity “hot-spot” for galaxiids. Fishes of Sahul, Journal of the Australian New Guinea Fishes Association 19(1): 97-107
Raadik, T.A. 2008. Family Galaxiidae. pp. 217-222 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [218]
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [35] (240–242, 248–250)
Common Name References
Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [35] (Short-fin Galaxias)
Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [96] (Climbing Galaxias)
Cadwallader, P.L. & Backhouse, G.N. 1983. A Guide to the Freshwater Fish of Victoria. Melbourne : F.D. Atkinson Government Printer 249 pp. figs. [70] (Broad-finned Galaxias)
Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [235] (Lowland Galaxias, Mersey Jollytail, Mountain Trout)
McDowall, R.M. (ed.) 1980. Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 208 pp., figs, 32 pls. [57] (Cox's Mountain Galaxias, Pieman Galaxias)
McDowall, R.M. & Fulton, W. 1996. Chapter 10. Family Galaxiidae — galaxiids. pp. 52-77 in McDowall, R.M. (ed.). Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : Reed Books 247 pp. [53] (Climbing Galaxias)
Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs. [82] (Climbing Galaxias)
Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [34] (as G. weedoni) (Cox's Mountain Trout, Lake Trout, Pieman Jollytail, St. Claire Trout)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Climbing Galaxias)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06-Jun-2016 | ARGENTINIFORMES | 11-Nov-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM) |
| 06-Jun-2016 | ARGENTINIFORMES | 06-Jul-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM) |
| 27-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |