Galaxiella pusilla

Taxonavigation: Galaxioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Stomiati Ordo: Osmeriformes Superfamilia: Galaxioidea

Name

Galaxiella pusilla (Mack, 1936)

Holotype: NMV A97. Paratypes: NMV A98 (1), A388-390 (1, 1, 1).

Type locality: Cardinia Creek, about 30 miles east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Etymology: The name pusilla is from the Latin pusillus (as originally used by Mack, 1936), meaning ‘very small’.

Mack, G. 1936. Victorian species of the genus Galaxias, with descriptions of two new species. Memoirs of the National Museum, Melbourne 9: 98–101. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.1936.9.05 Reference page.
Scott, E.O.G. 1971. Two new subspecies of Brachygalaxias Eigenmann, 1928. [Also as] On the occurrence in Tasmania and on Flinders Island of Brachygalaxias Eigenmann, 1928 (Pisces: Galaxiidae) with descriptions of two new subspecies. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum No. 37: 1–14. BHL Reference page.

Galaxiella pusilla in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Galaxiella pusilla in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

English: Dwarf Galaxias

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