Species Leptatherina presbyteroides (Richardson, 1843)

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Species Leptatherina presbyteroides (Richardson, 1843)

Silver Fish, Elongate Hardyhead, Port Lincoln Hardyhead, Prettyfish, Silverfish, Swan River Hardyhead, Tamar Hardyhead

Atherina presbyteroides Richardson, J. 1843. Contributions to the ichthyology of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 11(69): 169-182 [179].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH (lost), Port Arthur, TAS.
Atherinichthys edelensis Castelnau, F.L. de 1873. Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. 8. Fishes of Western Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria 2: 123-149 [134].
Type data:

Syntype(s) MNHP A.4302–4303, Swan River, WA; MNHP A.4373, Swan River, WA.
Atherinichthys obscurus Castelnau, F.L. de 1875. Researches on the fishes of Australia. Intercolonial Exhibition Essays. 2. pp. 1–52 in, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876 : Official Record. Melbourne. [31].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP A.4372, Swan River, WA
Comment: two specimens mentioned, one figured as holotype in Whitley, G.P. 1943. Ichthyological descriptions and notes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68(3, 4): 114–144 figs 1–12 [133 fig. 10].
Atherina tamarensis 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 [122].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1880.6.16.26, Launceston Bar, Tamar River, TAS.
Atherinosoma microstoma lincolnensis Whitley, G.P. 1941. Ichthyological notes and illustrations. The Australian Zoologist 10(1): 1-50 figs 1-32 pls 1-2 [17].
Type data:
Holotype AM IB.662 (figured in Whitley, G.P. 1955. Opus CCC. Australian Zoologist 12(2): 154–159 figs 1–7 [fig. 6]), Port Lincoln, SA.
Paratype(s) AM IB.663-664.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [357]

Generic Combinations

Taeniomembras edelensis (Castelnau, 1873). —
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] [100]
Hepsetia edelensis (Castelnau, 1873). —
Jordan, D.S. & Hubbs, C.L. 1919. A monographic review of the family Atherinidae or silversides. Stanford University Publications, University Series 40: 1-87 pls 1-12 [33]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [108]
Craterocephalus edelensis (Castelnau, 1873). —
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [39]
Taeniomembras lincolnensis (Whitley, 1941). —
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] [99] (677, changed combination)
Craterocephalus obscurus (Castelnau, 1875). —
Jordan, D.S. & Hubbs, C.L. 1919. A monographic review of the family Atherinidae or silversides. Stanford University Publications, University Series 40: 1-87 pls 1-12 [46]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [110]
Leptatherina presbyteroides (Richardson, 1843). —
Pavlov, A., Ivantsoff, W., Last, P.R. & Crowley, L.E.L.M. 1988. Kestratherina brevirostris, a new genus and species of silverside (Pisces: Atherinidae) with a review of atherinid marine and estuarine genera of southern Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39: 385-397 [393] (changed combination as type of genus Leptatherina)
Atherinosoma presbyteroides (Richardson, 1843). —
Chubb, C.F., Hutchins, J.B., Lenanton, R.C.J. & Potter, I.C. 1979. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Swan-Avon river system, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 8(1): 1-55 [17]
Hutchins, J.B. & Swainston, R. 1986. Sea Fishes of Southern Australia. Complete field guide for anglers and divers. Perth : Swainston Publishing 180 pp. [36]
Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [357]
Taeniomembras tamarensis (Johnston, 1883). —
McCulloch, A.R. & Waite, E.R. 1918. Some new and little known fishes from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1(1): 39-78 figs 26-31 pls 2-7 [41]
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] [99] (679)
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [39] (603)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Broken Bay, NSW (33º38´S) to Ceduna, SA (133º41´E), TAS coast, and Yorndee Creek (123º17´E) to Houtman Abrolhos (28º49´S), WA; temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

Hutchins, J.B. 1997. Checklist of fishes of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. pp. 239-253 in Wells, F. (ed.). The Marine Fauna and Flora of the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. [245]

Ecological Descriptors

Inshore, pelagic, schooling.

General References

Hutchins, J.B. & Swainston, R. 1986. Sea Fishes of Southern Australia. Complete field guide for anglers and divers. Perth : Swainston Publishing 180 pp. [36] (as Atherinosoma presbyteroides)

Hutchins, J.B. & Thompson, M. 1983. The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of South-western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 103 pp. 345 figs. [22] (78, as Atherinosoma presbyteroides)

Ivantsoff, W. 1994. Families Atherinidae, Isonidae. pp. 375-383 figs 336-342 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. [381]

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [67]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [107] (as Atherina presbyteroides, p. 108, as Hepsetia edelensis. Atherina tamarensis, p. 110, as Craterocephalus obscurus)

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] [99] (677 as Taeniomembras lincolnensis, 679 as Taeniomembras tamarensis, and p. 100, 682 as Taeniomembras edelensis)

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [357] (as Atherinosma presbyteroides)

Prince, J.D., Ivantsoff, W. & Potter, I.C. 1982. Atherinosoma wallacei, a new species of estuarine and inland water silverside (Teleostei : Atherinidae) from the Swan-Avon and Murray Rivers, Western Australia. The Australian Zoologist 21(1): 63-74 figs 1-2

Raadik, T.A. 2008. Family Atherinidae. pp. 395-400 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [400]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [39] (603, as Taeniomembras tamarensis, 609 as Atherinosoma microstoma lincolnensis, and 616 as Craterocephalus edelensis)