Species Nannoperca australis Günther, 1861

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Species Nannoperca australis Günther, 1861

Southern Pygmy Perch, Southern Pigmy Perch, Tasmanian Pigmy Perch

Nannoperca australis Günther, A. 1861. On a new genus of Australian freshwater fishes. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1861: 116-117 pl. 19 [116].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 1861.3.25.1-2, Murray River, Australia.
Paradules leetus Klunzinger, C.B. 1872. Zur Fische-fauna von Süd Australien. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 38(1): 17-47 pl. 2 [21].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SMNS 1695, Murray River, SA.
Nannoperca riverinae Macleay, W.J. 1881. Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 5(3): 302-444 [342].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Murrumbidgee River.
Microperca tasmaniae Johnston, R.M. 1888. Notes with respect to the fresh water fishes, and the land and fresh water molluscs of King's Island. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1887: 74-76 [74].
Type data:
Status unknown, TMH (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. 3(3)]), Yellow Rock Creek and northern rivers of TAS.
Nannoperca australis flindersi Scott, E.O.G. 1971. Observations on some Tasmanian fishes. Part 18. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 105: 119-143 fig. 1 [126].
Type data:
Holotype QVM 1970.5.25, Flinders Island, TAS.
Paratype(s) AM I.16157-001; BMNH 1972.1.27.; QVM 1970:5:31.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [156]

Generic Combinations

Nannoperca australis tasmaniae (Johnston, 1888). —
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] [154]
Nannoperca tasmaniae (Johnston, 1888). —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part II. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 145–329 [157]

Introduction

The species is listed as Endangered in New South Wales under the Fisheries Management Act 1994. Unmack et al. (2011) have suggested that the species is probably a composite of two distinct species (see also Kuiter 2013).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Occurs throughout the Murray-Murrumbidgee River system — Brinagagee, NSW (34º27´S, 145º42´E) to Ewens Ponds, SA (38º01´S, 140º49´E), also occurs in TAS in rivers draining north and on King and Flinders islands; temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)