Species Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945

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• Milyeringa veritas Whitley, G.P. 1945. New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 11(1): 1-42 figs 1-15 [36, fig. 15].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM P.2913, Milyering, Yardie, WA.
• Milyeringa brooksi Chakrabarty, P. 2010. Status and phylogeny of Milyeringidae (Teleostei: Gobiiformes), with the description of a new blind cave-fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp. Zootaxa 2557: 19-28 [22].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM P.28330-001, Pilgonaman Well, Cape Range National Park, North West Cape, WA [22°11’S 113°52’E].
  Paratype(s) LSUMZ 13637, Pilgonaman Well, Cape Range National Park, North West Cape, WA [22°11’30.5"S 113°52’00.1"E]; WAM P.29242, North West Cape, WA [22°12’S 113°51’E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Larson, H.K., Foster, R., Humphreys, W.F. & Stevens, M.I. 2013. A new species of the blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley. Zootaxa 3616(2): 135-150 [144]

 

Introduction

The species was listed by the IUCN in 2019 as Endangered. It was listed as Vulnerable under the EPBC Act by the Commonwealth in 2020 and Vulnerable in 2018 under Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 of Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known from Cape Range peninsula, WA (22°42'S to 21°48'S).

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater, underground water.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1982. Inland Fishes of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 86 pp. 6 figs 20 pls. [58]

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [193]

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [305]

Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M.P. & Sparks, J.S. 2012. The first record of a trans-oceanic sister-group relationship between obligate vertebrate troglobites. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 7(8): 1-8

Humphreys, W.F. 2001. Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile cave fish from the arid tropics of northwestern Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 62: 297–313

Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs. [295]

Page, T., Stevens, M.I., Adams, M., Foster, R., Velasco-Castrillón, A. & Humphreys, F. 2018. Multiple molecular markers reinforce the systematic framework of unique Australian cave fishes (Milyeringa : Gobioidei). Australian Journal of Zoology 66: 115-127

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [55] (2040)

 

Common Name References

FAO-FIES 2017. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) species list. http://www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en (Cave Gudgeon)

Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs. [295] (Cave Gudgeon, Blind Gudgeon)

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

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [59] (Cave Gudgeon)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Apr-2024	ELEOTRIDAE	03-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM)
07-Nov-2019	ELEOTRIDAE	02-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
04-Dec-2018	GOBIOIDEI	31-May-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
14-May-2015	GOBIOIDEI	11-Apr-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
		15-Oct-2013	MODIFIED