Dalhousie goby
| Dalhousie goby | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gobiiformes |
| Family: | Oxudercidae |
| Genus: | Chlamydogobius |
| Species: | C. gloveri
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| Binomial name | |
| Chlamydogobius gloveri Larson, 1995
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The Dalhousie goby (Chlamydogobius gloveri) is a species of goby endemic to Australia where it lives in the Dalhousie Springs. It feeds on small molluscs, crustaceans and other odds and ends like most other gobies. This species can reach a standard length of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in).[2]
Etymology[]
The species is named "gloveri" in honour of the late , a former Curator of Fishes at the South Australian Museum, who worked extensively on desert gobies and other taxa of fishes found in the deserts of Australia. Glover was sure that this goby was a distinct species from but he did not describe it.[3]
References[]
- ^ Hammer, M., Whiterod, N., Unmack, P., Mathwin, R. & Gotch, T. (2019). "Chlamydogobius gloveri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2019: e.T4700A129047514.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Chlamydogobius gloveri" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (6 December 2017). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
External links[]
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List critically endangered species
- Chlamydogobius
- Freshwater fish of South Australia
- Vulnerable fauna of Australia
- Fish described in 1995
- Endemic fauna of Australia
- Taxa named by Helen K. Larson
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