Milyeringa veritas

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gobioidei

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: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Gobiaria Ordo: Gobiiformes Subordo: Gobioidei

Familia: Milyeringidae
Genus: Milyeringa
Species: Milyeringa veritas

Name

Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945

• Holotype (unique): WAM P.2913-001.

Type locality: Milyering, 20 miles southwest of Vlamingh Head, North West Cape, Western Australia.

Synonyms

• Milyeringa brooksi Chakrabarty, 2010

References

• Chakrabartyty, P. 2010: Status and phylogeny of Milyeringidae (Teleostei: Gobiiformes), with the description of a new blind cave-fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp. Zootaxa, 2557: 19–28. Preview
• Humphreys, W.F. 2001: Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile cave fish from the arid tropics of northwestern Australia. Environmental biology of fishes, 62: 297–313. ISSN: 0378-1909 (Print) 1573-5133 (Online) DOI: 10.1023/A:1011880726946
• Humphreys, W.F.; Shiao, J-c.; Iizuka, Y.; Tzeng, W-n. 2006: Can otolith microchemistry reveal whether the blind cave gudgeon, Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), is diadromous within a subterranean Estuary? Environmental biology of fishes, 75: 439–453. ISSN: 0378-1909 (Print) 1573-5133 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-0012-6
• Larson, H. K., Foster, R., Humphreys, W. F. & Stevens, M. I.; 2013: A new species of the blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley. Zootaxa 3616(2): 135–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.2.3 Reference page. 
• Whitley, G.P. 1945: New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2. Australian zoologist, 11: 1–42.
• Whittaker, F.H.; Kritsky, D.C. 1973: An examination of the Australian blind cavefish, Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945, for helminth parasites. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 40: 297–298. [not seen]

Vernacular names

English: Blind gudgeon