Species Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866

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• Galaxias olidus Günther, A. 1866. Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 6 368 pp. [209].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1866.2.13.24, 'Queensland?'.
• Galaxias schomburgkii Peters, W.C.H. 1868. Über eine neue Nagergattung Chiropodomys penicillatus, so wie über einige neue oder weniger bekannte Amphibien und Fische. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 448-460 figs 1-2 [455].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB 6788 (2), from a mountain stream near Adelaide, SA
  Comment: Syntypes are dried and hard (Raadik, 2014).
• Galaxias bongbong Macleay, W.J. 1881. Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part 4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(2): 202-387 [sometimes cited as 1882] [233].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM I.16258–002 (ex MMUS F82), Moss Vale and rivers at Bong-bong, New South Wales, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) AM I.16258-001 (6) (ex MMUS F.82), Moss Vale and rivers at Bong-bong, New South Wales, Australia
  Comment: A further 3 specimens from the original type series (MAMU F.82) are missing.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Whitley, G.P. 1941. Ichthyological notes and illustrations. The Australian Zoologist 10(1): 1-50 figs 1-32 pls 1-2 [4] (pl. 1(4)).
• Galaxias findlayi Macleay, W.J. 1882. On a species of Galaxias found in the Australian Alps. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 7(1): 106-109 [dated 1883] [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MMUS (2), icy ponds of the snowy range in the neighbourhood of Mount Kosciuszko’, Snowy River system, NSW, Australia
  Comment: specimen lost (Raadik 2014).
• Galaxias kayi Ramsay, E.P. & Ogilby, J.D. 1886. Descriptions of some new Australian fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1(1): 4-7 [dated 1887] [6].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1905.7.29.31 (2) (ex AM I.3), Fifth Creek, SA; MCZ 27560 (2) (ex AM I.4; 1 missing), Fifth Creek, SA; AM I.5 (2), Fifth Creek, SA; AM I.6 (2), Fifth Creek, SA; AM I.7 (2), Fifth Creek, SA.
• Galaxias oconnori Ogilby, J.D. 1912. On some Queensland fishes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 1: 26-65 2 figs pls 13-14 [33] [as G. o'connori].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM I.421 (figured in Whitley, G.P. 1933. Studies in Ichthyology No. 7. Record of the Australian Museum 19(1): 60–112 figs 1–4 pls 11–15 [pl. 12(3)]. Specimen disintegrated (Raadik 2014)), Lyra, near Stanthorpe, southern QLD, Australia.

 

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 [469]
• Raadik, T.A. 2014. Fifteen from one: a revision of the Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 complex (Teleostei, Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia recognises three previously described taxa and describes 12 new species. Zootaxa 3898(1): 1-198 [92] (detailed discussion of synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Lyragalaxias oconnori (Günther, 1866). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1935. Whitebait. Victorian Naturalist 52(3): 41-51 [Plate III, fig. 5] (changed combination)

 

Introduction

In a recent revision of the Galaxias olidus species complex Raadik (2011, 2014) identified 15 species, 12 of which were undescribed, based on morphological, allozyme and molecular data (see also Adams et al. 2014).

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Widespread in south-eastern Australia on both sides of the Great Dividing Range from southern QLD (ca. 28ºS 152º20'E), through NSW and ACT to central VIC (ca. 37º21'S, 144º32'E), and disjunct catchments west of the Mt Lofty Ranges, SA, occurs across a wide elevational range, generally at greater elevation in the northern part of its range; temperate

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Can climb over moist surfaces out of the water.

 

General References

Adams, M., Raadik, T.A., Burridge, C.P. & Georges, A. 2014. Global biodiversity assessment and hyper-cryptic species complexes: more than one species of elephant in the room. Systematic Biology 63(4): 518–533 [521] (as taxon ‘OL’)

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [39] (in part)

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [103] (in part)

Cadwallader, P.L. & Backhouse, G.N. 1983. A Guide to the Freshwater Fish of Victoria. Melbourne : F.D. Atkinson Government Printer 249 pp. figs. [69] (in part)

Frankenberg, R. 1969. Studies on the evolution of galaxiid fishes with particular reference to the Australian fauna. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. 185 pp. [170] (in part)

Hammer, M.P., Adams, M. & Foster, R. 2012. Update to the catalogue of South Australian freshwater fishes (Petromyzontida & Actinopterygii). Zootaxa 3593: 59–74 [63]

Leggett, R. & Merrick, J.R. 1987. Australian Native Fishes for Aquariums. Artarmon : J.R. Merrick Publications 241 pp. 142 figs. [92] (in part)

Lintermans, M. 2007. Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin — An Introductory Guide. Canberra : Murray-Darling Basin Commission Vol. MDBC Publication Number 10/07 157 pp. [44] (in part)

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [48] (in part, and p. 49 as G. bongbong, G. findlayi, G. oconnori, G. schomburgkii)

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 [302]

McDowall, R.M. & Frankenberg, R.S. 1981. The galaxiid fishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 33(10): 443-605 figs 1-47 [469] (in part)

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. [55] (in part)

Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs. [85]

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] (237, as G. bongbong; p. 246, as G. findlayi; p. 247, as G. kayi; p. 248, as G. schomburgkii; p. 250, as G. oconnori)

Raadik, T.A. 2011. Systematic revision of the Mountain Galaxias, Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 species complex (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in eastern Australia. Ph.D thesis, University of Canberra. pp. i-xxiii, 1-493

Raadik, T.A. 2014. Fifteen from one: a revision of the Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 complex (Teleostei, Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia recognises three previously described taxa and describes 12 new species. Zootaxa 3898(1): 1-198

Unmack, P.J. 2001. Biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes. Journal of Biogeography 28: 1053-1089 [1060]

 

Common Name References

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [103] (Mountain Galaxias)

Lintermans, M. 2009. Fishes of the Murray-Darling Basin — An Introductory Guide. Canberra : Murray-Darling Basin Commission 157 pp. [MDBC Publication Number 10/07] [44] (Mountain Galaxias)

McDowall, R.M. (ed.) 1980. Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 208 pp., figs, 32 pls. [58] (Inland 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. [55] (Mountain Galaxias)

Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs. [85] (Mountain 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] [37] (as G. bongbong) (Inland Mountain Trout, Johnston's Mountain Trout, Kosciusko Trout, Queensland Mountain Trout, Schomburgk's Minnow, South Australian Minnow)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Jun-2016	ARGENTINIFORMES	18-Nov-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
06-Jun-2016	ARGENTINIFORMES	05-Jul-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED