Mindanao Glassgoby, Gobiopterus mindanensis (Herre 1944)

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Mindanao Glassgoby, Gobiopterus mindanensis (Herre 1944)

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Distribution	Wyndham, Western Australia, to Karumba, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical west Pacific. Inhabits shallow estuaries, mangrove areas.
Etymology	The species is named mindanensis in reference to the type locality: Mindanao, Philippines.
Species Citation	Mistichthys mindanensis Herre 1944, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 57(22): 109. Type locality: puddles around the base of nipa palms near the Fisheries Station at Zamboanga, Mindanao, Philippines.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2020
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Mindanao Glassgoby, Gobiopterus mindanensis (Herre 1944)

References

Collen, B., Richman, N. & Ram, M. (Sampled Red List Index Coordinating Team). 2010. Gobiopterus mindanensis (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010: e.T155223A115287704. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T155223A4750241.en. Downloaded on 21 May 2020.

Herre, A.W. 1944. Notes on fishes in the Zoological Museum of Stanford University. 15. Two new minute gobies of the genus Mistichthys, from the Philippines. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 57(22): 107-111 See ref at BHL

Kottelat, M. 2013. The fishes of the inland waters of Southeast Asia: a catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (Suppl. 27): 1-663.

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