Species Syncomistes bonapartensis Shelley, Delaval & Le Feuvre, 2017

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• Syncomistes bonapartensis Shelley, J.J., Delaval, A., & Le Feuvre, M.C. 2017. A revision of the grunter genus Syncomistes (Teleostei, Terapontidae, Syncomistes) with descriptions of seven new species from the Kimberley region, northwestern Australia. Zootaxa 4367(1): 1-103 [26, figs 8-9].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM S.17646–003, Off Cossack Road, Katherine River, NT [14°32'52.8'' S, 132°7'48''].
  Paratype(s) NTM S.11616-003; NTM S.13299–001; NTM S.14549-001; NTM S.15467-018; NTM S.16347-001; NTM S.16404-002; NTM S.17646-003; NTM 17648-008; NTM S.17661-005; WAM P.34528-001; WAM P.34532-001; WAM P.34534-001; WAM P.34537-002; WAM P.34545-001; WAM P.34546-001.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Syncomistes butleri Vari, 1978 [recently split into two species]. —
  Allen, G.R. 1982. Inland Fishes of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 86 pp. 6 figs 20 pls. [50]
  Allen, G.R. & Leggett, R. 1990. A collection of freshwater fishes from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 14(4): 527-545 fig. 1 [538]
  GiIl, H.S., Morgan, D.L., Doupe, R.G. & RowIand, A.J 2006. The fishes of Lake Kununurra, a highly regulated section of the Ord River in northern Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 1-6 [4]
  Morgan, D., Cheinmora, D., Charles, A., Nulgit, P. & Kimberley Language Resource Centre 2006. Fishes of the King Edward and Carson Rivers with their Belaa and Ngarinyin names. Centre for Fish & Fisheries Research, Murdoch University / Kimberley Language Resource Centre. 69 pp. [49]
  Morgan, D.L. 2010. Fishes of the King Edward River in the Kimberley region, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 351–368 [356]
  Morgan, D.L., Allen, G.R., Pusey, B.J. & Burrows, D.W. 2011. A review of the freshwater fishes of the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Zootaxa 2816: 1-64 [16]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Drysdale River, Kimberley region, WA to the Finnis River, NT; tropical

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Pine Creek (PCK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

 

Common Name References

Shelley, J.J., Delaval, A., & Le Feuvre, M.C. 2017. A revision of the grunter genus Syncomistes (Teleostei, Terapontidae, Syncomistes) with descriptions of seven new species from the Kimberley region, northwestern Australia. Zootaxa 4367(1): 1-103 [26] (Lake Bonaparte Grunter)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	TERAPONTIDAE	18-Apr-2018	ADDED	Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett