Galaxiella pusilla Mack, 1936

Coleman, Rhys A., Hoffmann, Ary A. & Raadik, Tarmo A., 2015, A review of Galaxiella pusilla (Mack) (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia with a description of a new species, Zootaxa 4021 (2), pp. 243-281 : 266-267

Galaxiella pusilla Mack, 1936

Dwarf galaxias

Tables 2 to 3; Figs. 3 to 4, 9b, 10b, 11 and 13

Galaxias pusillus Mack, 1936: 101 ( holotype NMV A.97, paratypes NMV A.98 (1), NMV A.388–390 (3); type locality ‘Cardinia Creek, about 30 miles east of Melbourne, Victoria’)— Massola 1938: 129; Whitley 1939: 268; Stokell 1945: 126; Shipway 1953; 173; McDowall 1971: 36; Dixon 1972: 121; McDowall 1973: 193; Andrews 1976 ( partim): 324.

Galaxias pucillus — Mack, 1936: 101 (misprint in legend of Fig. 2 ).

Brachygalaxias pusillus — Scott 1942: 55; Stokell 1954: 412; Whitley 1956a: 34; 1956b: 39 ( partim); 1957: 6; 1960: 29; 1964: 35; Scott 1966: 246 ( partim); Frankenberg 1966a: 162; 1966b: 32; 1967: 227 ( partim); 1968: 172; Lake 1971: 20 ( partim); Scott 1971: 3 ( partim); Dixon 1972: 121; Frankenberg 1974: 119; Pollard 1980: 348 ( partim).

Brachygalaxias pusillus pusillus — Munro 1957: 18 ( partim); Frankenberg 1969: 185 ( partim); Frankenberg 1971: 94 ( partim); McDowall1973: 193; Scott 1971: 3.

Brachygalaxias pusillus flindersiensis Scott, 1971: 6 ( holotype: QVM 1969:5:35 (previously 1969.5.25a); paratypes: AMS I.16158-001 (1), BMNH 1972.1.27.1 (1), QVM 1969:5:34 (12); type locality: ‘Lackrana, Flinders Island, Furneaux Group, Bass Strait’);– Green 1974: 3; Frankenberg 1974: 114.

Brachygalaxias pusillus tasmaniensis Scott, 1971: 3 ( holotype: QVM 1971.5.48 (listed in error as 1970/5/25 a in original description); paratypes: AMS I.16159-001 (1), BMNH 1972.1.27.2 (1), QVM 1971:5:50 (11); type locality ‘from a soak from a dam flowing towards the coast (northward) on Marengo, Waterhouse Estate , Dorset, Tasmania’); Green 1974: 3; Frankenberg 1974: 114.

Galaxiella pusilla — McDowall 1978b: 309; Lake 1978: 26 ( partim); Backhouse & Vanner 1978: 129 ( partim); McDowall 1980: 55 ( partim); McDowall & Frankenberg 1981: 552 ( partim); Backhouse 1983: 6 ( partim); Cadwallader & Backhouse 1983: 75 ( partim); Humphries 1983: 4 ( partim); Johnson et al. 1983: 50; Last et al. 1983: 201 ( partim); Merrick & Schmida 1984: 98 ( partim); Humphries 1986: 133; Allen 1989: 44 ( partim), 89; Berra & Allen 1989: 293 ( partim); Breen et al. 1989: 1; Paxton et al. 1989: 179 ( partim); Fulton 1990: 39 ( partim); Koehn & Morison 1990: 20 ( partim); Andrews 1991: 59 ( partim); Pen et al. 1993: 848 ( partim); Humphries 1995: 1159 ( partim); Unmack & Paras 1995: 398 ( partim); Westbury 1995: 1 ( partim); Chilcott & Humphries 1996: 147 ( partim); McDowall & Fulton 1996: 70 ( partim); Koster 1997: 9 ( partim); Raadik & Zampatti 1998: 6; McDowall 1999: 936; 2000: 1123 ( partim); Waters et al. 2000: 794; Unmack 2001: 1060 ( partim); Allen et al. 2002: 111 ( partim); Fields 2002: 3 ( partim); Koster 2003: 268 ( partim); McDowall & Waters 2004: 24; Romanowski 2004: 80 ( partim); Kuiter 2005: 162 ( partim); Hardie et al. 2006: 238; McDowall 2006: 356 ( partim); Paxton et al. 2006: 408 ( partim); Raadik 2006: 139; Threatened Species Section 2006: 44 ( partim); Galeotti et al. 2010: 13 ( partim); Saddlier et al. 2010: 3 ( partim); Stoessel 2010: 2; McDowall & Burridge 2011: 9; Burridge et al. 2012: 313; Hammer et al. 2012: 62; Crook & Gillanders 2013: 207 ( partim); Hammer et al. 2013: 70 ( partim); King et al. 2013: 165 ( partim); Koehn & Kennard 2013: 91; Kuiter 2013: 84 ( partim), images pp 84-85, images top p. 86, images p. 87; Lieschke et al. 2013a: 15; Lieschke et al. 2013b: 235; Lintermans 2013c: 286 ( partim); Raadik 2014: 160 ( partim); Galeotti et al. 2015: 189.

Galaxiella pusilla ‘east region’— Coleman et al. 2010: 1911; Unmack et al. 2012: 1; Coleman et al. 2013: 1821.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Positions of 12 landmarks: 1. tip of snout, 2. posterior extent of lower jaw, 3. superior margin of eye, 4. inferior margin of eye, 5. origin of pelvic fin, 6. origin of dorsal fin, 7. posterior insertion of dorsal fin, 8. origin of anal fin, 9. posterior insertion of anal fin, 10. superior insertion of caudal fin, 11. midpoint of caudal fin base, 12. inferior insertion of the caudal fin, *. inferior margin of lower black band directly above ‘ 5 ’ used with ‘ 1 ’ and ‘ 11 ’ to unbend specimens.

FIGURE 3. Boxplots of morphometric ratio data for female Galaxiella pusilla s. s. (black) and Galaxiella toourtkoourt (grey). Values are given as percentages of the first measurement over the second measurement listed on the x axes. Outliers that are> 1.5 times the interquartile range above the upper quartile or below the lower quartile are indicated by a dot. See Fig. 1 for measurement descriptions.