Species Neosilurus pseudospinosus Allen & Feinberg, 1998

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• Neosilurus pseudospinosus Allen, G.R. & Feinberg, M.N. 1998. Descriptions of a new genus and four new species of freshwater catfishes (Plotosidae) from Australia. Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 3(1): 9-18 figs 1-6 [15, figs 4-5].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM P.28505-007, rocky pool of Ord River on Old Lissadel Station, Kimberley District, WA [~16°40´S, 128°83´E].
  Paratype(s) AMNH 36416 (81); AM I.26739-001 (20); BMNH 1977.6.13.1-20 (20); CAS 39374 (20); FMNH 83829 (20); QM I.14121; SAM F4267 (20); USNM 217461 (20); WAM P.25404-007 (11); WAM P.25456-011; WAM P.25406-006; WAM P.25410-007; WAM P.25413-005 (2); WAM P.25420-006 (5); WAM P.25732-001 (21); WAM P.25872-005; WAM P.25876-002 (2); WAM P.28505-006 (8); QM I.22492.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Neosilurus sp. C. —
  Allen, G.R. 1988. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. An annotated checklist. Ringwood, Victoria, Australia : New Guinea Fishes Association, Ringwood, Victoria : 8 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Creeks of the Kimberley region of WA to Victoria River system, NT; tropical.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Freshwater.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [63] (sp. A from north-west Australia)

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [83]

Ferraris, C.J. 2007. Checklist of catfishes, recent and fossil (Osteichthyes: Siluriformes), and catalogue of siluriform primary types. Zootaxa 1418: 1–628 [Date published 8 March 2007] [349]

Hoese, D.F. & Gates, J.E. 2006. Plotosidae. pp. 357-365 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [362]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [21]

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 [12]

Morgan, D.L., Allen, M.G., Bedford, P. & Horstman, M. 2004. Fish fauna of the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia – including the Bunuba, Gooniyandi, Ngarinyin, Nyikina and Walmajarii Aboriginal names. Records of the Western Australian Museum 22: 147-161 [150]

Unmack, P.J. 2001. Biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes. Journal of Biogeography 28: 1053-1089 [1061]

 

Common Name References

Allen, G.R. & Feinberg, M.N. 1998. Descriptions of a new genus and four new species of freshwater catfishes (Plotosidae) from Australia. Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology 3(1): 9-18 figs 1-6 [15] (False-spined Catfish)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Sep-2013	SILURIFORMES	12-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED