Jeff’s Snubnose Goby, Pseudogobius jeffi Larson & Hammer 2021
Jeff’s Snubnose Goby, Pseudogobius jeffi, male, from Chinaman Creek tributary, Cairns, Queensland. Source: Michael Hammer / Northern Territory Museum. License: All rights reserved
Summary:
A moderate-sized Pseudogobius with brown scale margins, 3–5 small brown elongate blotches or spots along the mid-side, with the last blotch on the midbase of the caudal fin extending onto the caudal fin and coalescing with a blackish blotch on the fin, and sometimes forming a narrow vertical dark bar on the fin base. The caudal fin is translucent dusky grey with scattered brownish spots near the base.
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Bray, D.J. 2022, Pseudogobius jeffi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5644
Jeff’s Snubnose Goby, Pseudogobius jeffi Larson & Hammer 2021
More Info
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Distribution |
Endemic to the north-east coast of Queensland, from the Daintree region to Round Hill south-east of Gladstone, including near-shore islands. Inhabits shallow estuarine areas, including mangrove creeks and muddy tide-pools, at depths of 0–1 m. Also in marginal habitats such as by boat ramps and overgrown drains. |
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Features |
A moderately sized Pseudogobius with second dorsal rays I,6–7, usually I,7; anal rays I,6–8, usually I,7; pectoral rays 15–17; 16 segmented caudal rays, usually in 9/7 pattern; lateral scales 23–26; TRB 7–9, usually 8; predorsal scales 6–7; opercle with three rows of large cycloid scales; nearly always with single cycloid scale on cheek right behind eye; shoulder girdle with thin bony flange; tongue short; in males, teeth in outer row of upper jaw slightly flattened, tips blunt or rounded, with two small curved symphyseal canines behind anterior tooth rows; females with outer row teeth of upper jaw small, compressed, evenly sized and blunt-tipped. |
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Colour |
Scale margins edged with brown, 3–5 small brown elongate small blotches or spots along mid-side of body with posteriormost blotch at midbase of caudal fin, extending onto fin and coalescing blackish blotch on fin and may form narrow vertical dark bar on fin base; caudal fin translucent dusky grey with scattered brownish spots near base. |
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Etymology |
This species is named for Helen K. Larson's 'husband Jeff [Larson], who has inadvertently learned much about gobioid fishes over 50-something years, so it is high time that he had a Queensland goby named for him.' |
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Species Citation |
Pseudogobius jeffi Larson & Hammer 2021, Zootaxa 4961(1): 39, Figs. 14-15. Type locality: Auckland Creek, Gladstone, Queensland, Australia. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2022 |
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Resources |
Jeff’s Snubnose Goby, Pseudogobius jeffi Larson & Hammer 2021
References
Hammer, M.P., Adams, M., Unmack, P.J., Hassell, K.L. & Bertozzi, T. 2021. Surprising Pseudogobius: Molecular systematics of benthic gobies reveals new insights into estuarine biodiversity (Teleostei: Gobiiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60: 107140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107140 (as Pseudogobius sp. C ‘spotted’)
Larson, H.K. & Hammer, M.P. 2021. A revision of the gobiid fish genus Pseudogobius (Teleostei, Gobiidae, Tridentigerinae), with description of seven new species from Australia and South-east Asia. Zootaxa 4961(1), https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4961.1.1
