Species Galaxias truttaceus Valenciennes, 1846

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Species Galaxias truttaceus Valenciennes, 1846

Spotted Galaxias, Mountain Trout, Native Trout, Ocellated Mountain Trout, Spotted Minnow, Spotted Mountain Trout, Spotted Trout Minnow, Trout Galaxias, Trout Minnow, Western Mountain Trout, Yarra Trout

Compiler and date details

5 November 2011 - Dianne J. Bray

Galaxias truttaceus Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1846. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 18 505 pp. pls 520-553. [344, pl. 543].
Type data:

Syntype(s) MNHP A.5211–3 (3), TAS; SMF 698, TAS.
Galaxias ocellatus McCoy, F. 1867. On the recent zoology and palaeontology of Victoria. pp. 309–330 in, Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia, Melbourne. 1866–67. Melbourne : Blundell. [320].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV A.444 (formerly NMV 56308), Yarra River, VIC.
Secondary source:
Dixon, J.M. 1972. Catalogue of galaxiid types (Pisces : Galaxiidae) in the National Museum of Victoria, Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 33: 121-122 [121].
Galaxias (Galaxias) scopus Scott, E.O.G. 1936. Observations on fishes of the family Galaxiidae. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1935: 85-112 figs 1-4 [95, fig. 2].
Type data:
Holotype QVM 971:5:18 (ex HT.949), Clarke Island, Bass Strait, from a "small brackish-water stream…", TAS.
Paratype(s) BMNH 1966.5.6.5, Clarke Island, Bass Strait, about 200-300 yards from the sea in a creek flowing eastward, TAS.
Galaxias truttaceus hesperius Whitley, G.P. 1944. New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. The Australian Zoologist 10(3): 252-273 figs 1-6 [263].
Type data:
Holotype WAM P.2580 (figured in Whitley, G.P. 1955. Taxonomic notes on fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1953–54: 44–57 figs 1–8 [fig. 1]), Creek flowing into Taylors Inlet (Nannarup), Albany district, WA.
Paratype(s) AM I.13280 (2), Albany district, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

McDowall, R.M. & Frankenberg, R.S. 1981. The galaxiid fishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 33(10): 443-605 figs 1-47 [501]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Coastal drainages from north of Mallacoota Inlet, VIC (37º25'S, 149º45'E) to Eight Mile Creek, Port MacDonnell, SA (38º03'S, 140º42'E) including Tasmania and Bass Strait Islands, also from the Albany region, WA (117º06 to 118º12'E), and present in southern catchments of the mid-upper Murray River due to translocations; temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR)

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, freshwater, inshore, marine.

General References

Allen, G.R. 1982. Inland Fishes of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 86 pp. 6 figs 20 pls. [18]

Allen, G.R. 1989. Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Neptune, New Jersey : T.F.H. Publications 240 pp., 63 pls. [42]

Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. & Allen, M. 2002. Field Guide to the Freshwater Fishes of Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 394 pp. [108]

Cadwallader, P.L. & Backhouse, G.N. 1983. A Guide to the Freshwater Fish of Victoria. Melbourne : F.D. Atkinson Government Printer 249 pp. figs. [72]

Chilcott, S. J. & Humphries, P. 1996. Freshwater fish of northeast Tasmania with notes on the dwarf galaxias. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston 103: 145-149 [145]

Colman, J.G. 2010. New records of Galaxias truttaceus (Galaxiidae) in the Kent River catchment, southwestern Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 93(4): 189-193

Hammer, M.P., Adams, M. & Foster, R. 2012. Update to the catalogue of South Australian freshwater fishes (Petromyzontida & Actinopterygii). Zootaxa 3593: 59–74 [63]

Hammer, M.P. & Walker, K.F. 2004. A catalogue of South Australian freshwater fishes, including new records, range extensions and translocations. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 128(2): 85-97 [88, 90]

Humphries, P. 1989. Variation in the life history of the spotted galaxias, Galaxias truttaceus Valenciennes, in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40: 501-518

Humphries, P. 1990. Morphological variation in diadromous and landlocked populations of the spotted galaxias, Galaxias truttaceus Valenciennes, in Tasmania, south-eastern Australia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 27: 97-105

Leggett, R. & Merrick, J.R. 1987. Australian Native Fishes for Aquariums. Artarmon : J.R. Merrick Publications 241 pp. 142 figs. [94]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [48]

McDowall, R.M. 1994. Families Retropinnidae, Prototroctidae, Galaxiidae. pp. 232-239 figs 207-212 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. [238]

McDowall, R.M. 2006. Crying wolf, crying foul, or crying shame: alien salmonids and a biodiversity crisis in the southern cool-temperate galaxioid fishes? Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 16: 233-422 [315]

McDowall, R.M. & Frankenberg, R.S. 1981. The galaxiid fishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 33(10): 443-605 figs 1-47 [501, 503]

McDowall, R.M. & Fulton, W. 1996. Chapter 10. Family Galaxiidae — galaxiids. pp. 52-77 in McDowall, R.M. (ed.). Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : Reed Books 247 pp. [60]

Merrick, J.R. & Schmida, G.E. 1984. Australian Freshwater Fishes Biology and Management. Sydney : J.R. Merrick 409 pp. figs 280 col. figs. [88]

Morgan, D.L. 2003. Distribution and biology of Galaxias truttaceus (Galaxiidae) in south-western Australia, including first evidence of parasitism of fishes in Western Australia by Ligula intestinalis (Cestoda). Environmental Biology of Fishes 66(2): 155-167

Morgan, D.L., Beatty, S.J., Klunzinger, M.W., Allen, M.G. & Burnham, Q.E. 2011. A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, Crayfishes & Mussels of South-Western Australia. Murdoch, Western Australia : SERCUL & Freshwater Fish Group & Fish Health Unit (Murdoch University) pp. 80. [11]

Morgan, D.L., Gill, H.S. & Potter, I.C. 1998. Distribution, identification and biology of freshwater fishes in south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 56: 1-97 [26]

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] [34] (238, 239, as G. truttaceus hesperius and 240, as G. truttaceus scopus)

Paxton, J.R., Allen, G.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Galaxiidae. pp. 402-411 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. [407]

Raadik, T.A. 1992. Distribution of freshwater fishes in east Gippsland, Victoria, 1967–1991. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 104: 1-22 [9]

Raadik, T.A. 2006. Chapter 13. Freshwater fishes. pp. 133-148 in Museum Victoria and CSIRO Publishing. Melbourne's Wildlife. A Field Guide to the Fauna of Greater Melbourne. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 348 pp. [138]

Raadik, T.A. 2008. Family Galaxiidae. pp. 217-222 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [220]

Raadik, T.A. 2011. Systematic revision of the Mountain Galaxias, Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 species complex (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in eastern Australia. Ph.D thesis, University of Canberra. pp. i-xxiii, 1-493 [395]

Raadik, T.A. 2014. Fifteen from one: a revision of the Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 complex (Teleostei, Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia recognises three previously described taxa and describes 12 new species. Zootaxa 3898(1): 1-198 [160]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [35] (245, 246)