Chingilt, Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley 1940
Illustration of the holotype of the Chingilt, Yirrkala chaselingi. Source: Whitley 1940 Australian Zoologist 9(4): Fig. 17. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Yirrkala chaselingi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Mar 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1422
Chingilt, Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley 1940
More Info
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Distribution |
Exmouth, Western Australia, to the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, west Pacific. Inhabits burrows in mud-sand substrates. |
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Etymology |
The species is named in honour of Rev. W.S. Chaseling, who presented to holotype to Gilbert Whitley. |
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Species Citation |
Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley 1940, Australian Zoologist 9(4): 410, fig. 17. Type locality: Yirrkala, Caledon Bay, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Resources |
Australian Faunal Directory |
Chingilt, Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley 1940
References
Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. (as Yirrkala lumbricoides)
Hutchins, J.B. 2003. Checklist of marine fishes of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. pp. 453-478 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., & Jones, D.S. (eds). Proceedings of the Eleventh International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. (as Yirrkala lumbricoides)
Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293.
McCosker, J.E. 1977. The osteology, classification, and relationships of the eel family Ophichthidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41(1): 1-123 figs 1-45 https://biostor.org/reference/59597 (misidentified as Yirrkala lumbricoides)
McCosker, J.E. 1999. Pisces Anguilliformes: deepwater snake eels (Ophichthidae) from the New Caledonian region, southwest Pacific Ocean. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 180: 571-588.
McCosker, J.E. 2011. Two new Indo-Pacific species of the sand-eel genus Yirrkala (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae). Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity, Bulletin 13: 45-50.
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.
Smith, D.G. & McCosker, J.E. 1999. Family Ophichthidae. pp. 1662-1699 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068.
Tighe, K., McCosker, J. & Smith, D.G. 2022. Yirrkala chaselingi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T199193A2568371. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T199193A2568371.en. Accessed on 31 October 2024.
Whitley, G.P. 1940. Illustrations of some Australian fishes. Australian Zoologist 9(4): 397-428, Pls. 30-31. See ref at BHL
