Genus Milyeringa Whitley, 1945
- Milyeringa Whitley, G.P. 1945. New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. The Australian Zoologist 11(1): 1-42 figs 1-15 [36].
Type species:
Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945 by original designation.
Introduction
The genus was placed in the family Odontobutidae by Thacker (2009). It has been placed in the family Milyeringidae by Chakrabarty (2010) and Chakrabarty et al. (2912), but is retained here in the Eleotridae.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
IBRA
WA: Carnarvon (CAR)
General References
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
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
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
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
Thacker, C.E. 2009. Phylogeny of Gobioidei and placement within Acanthomorpha, with a new classification and investigation of diversification and character evolution. Copeia 2009(1): 93–104
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) |
| 04-Dec-2018 | GOBIOIDEI | 07-Nov-2016 | MODIFIED | Dr Doug Hoese |
| 14-May-2015 | GOBIOIDEI | 07-Apr-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Doug Hoese |
| 30-Mar-2010 | MODIFIED |