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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Dianne J. Bray, Yirrkala chaselingi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1422

Chingilt, Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley 1940

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Distribution

Exmouth, Western Australia, to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Northern Territory. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, west Pacific.

Species Citation

Yirrkala chaselingi Whitley 1940, Aust. Zool. 9(4): 410, fig. 17. Type locality: Yirrkala, Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland. 

Author

Dianne J. Bray

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


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. 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.

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CAAB Code:37068036

Depth:1-50 m

Habitat:Soft bottoms

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