Taxonavigation: Galaxioidea |
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Superregnum: Eukaryota |
Familia: Galaxiidae
Subfamilia: Galaxiinae
Genus: Galaxiella
Species: Galaxiella pusilla
Name
Galaxiella pusilla (Mack, 1936)
Holotype: NMV A97. Paratypes: NMV A98 (1), A388-390 (1, 1, 1).
Type locality: Cardinia Creek, about 30 miles east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Etymology: The name pusilla is from the Latin pusillus (as originally used by Mack, 1936), meaning ‘very small’.
Synonyms
- Galaxias pusillus Mack, 1936
- Brachygalaxias pusillus flindersiensis Scott, 1971
- Brachygalaxias pusillus tasmaniensis Scott, 1971
References
- Mack, G. 1936. Victorian species of the genus Galaxias, with descriptions of two new species. Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne 9: 98–101. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.1936.9.05 Reference page.
- Scott, E.O.G. 1971. Two new subspecies of Brachygalaxias Eigenmann, 1928. [Also as] On the occurrence in Tasmania and on Flinders Island of Brachygalaxias Eigenmann, 1928 (Pisces: Galaxiidae) with descriptions of two new subspecies. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum No. 37: 1–14. BHL Reference page.
- Coleman, R.A., Hoffmann, A.A. & Raadik, T.A. 2015. A review of Galaxiella pusilla (Mack) (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia with a description of a new species. Zootaxa 4021(2): 243–281. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.2 Preview (PDF). Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Links
- Galaxiella pusilla in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2022. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
- Galaxiella pusilla in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2022. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 06/2022.
Vernacular names
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