FB-68490 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68490 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Cypriniformes Leuciscidae Alburnoides Alburnoides thessalicus Stephanidis, 1950 Duckbilled clingfish 2017-12-19 2017-12-19 Conway, K.W., G.I. Moore and A.P. Summers0 A new genus and species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from Western Australia. Copeia 105(1):128-140. (Ref. 116784) IUCN0 The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1964 - onwards. https://www.iucnredlist.org/ (Ref. 130435) FB-DiagnosticDescr-68499 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2017-12-21 00:00:00 2017-12-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68499 This species is distinguished by the following characters: unique features of oral jaws, including: an upper jaw which is much wider and longer than the lower jaw, creating a large gap between the outermost teeth of the upper jaw and those of the lower jaw (vs. upper and lower jaws similar in width and length and without obvious gap between outermost teeth of the upper jaw and those of the lower jaw or upper jaw only slightly wider and longer than the lower jaw creating a narrow gap between the outermost teeth of the upper jaw and those of the lower jaw); with tiny dagger-like conical teeth of uniform size arranged in multiple rows in both the upper (premaxilla; ca. 15 rows) and lower jaw (dentary; ca. 10 rows; vs. single row of conical teeth along the upper and lower jaws, a few short, staggered rows of incisiviform and/or conical teeth along both the upper and lower jaw, or conical teeth arranged in a broad patch anteriorly tapering to a single row posteriorly along both the upper and lower jaws); medial face of dentary without an anteromedially directed spine-like process; borad snout, rounded anteriorly, upper lip separated from snout by a shallow groove; adhesive disc double, with papillae present along the entire anterior margin of disc region A; patches of papillae on disc regions C and D; gill openings are large, joined across isthmus; presence of a well-developed spine laterally on head, formed by a heavily ossified subopercle; dorsal and anal fins are widely separated from caudal fin; dorsal fin with fewer fin rays compared to anal fin (Ref. 116784). FB-Distribution-68499 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2017-12-21 00:00:00 2025-11-05 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68499 Eastern Indian Ocean: Western Australia. Conway, K.W., G.I. Moore and A.P. Summers 2017 A new genus and species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from Western Australia. Copeia 105(1):128-140. (Ref. 116784) FB-Uses-68499 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2017-12-21 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68499 fisheries: bycatch FB-Size-68499 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2017-12-21 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68499 4.0 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 116784)) Conway, K.W., G.I. Moore and A.P. Summers 2017 A new genus and species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from Western Australia. Copeia 105(1):128-140. (Ref. 116784) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-68499 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2017-12-21 00:00:00 2024-08-16 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=68499 reef-associated; marine; depth range 33 - 37 m (Ref. 116784) Conway, K.W., G.I. Moore and A.P. Summers 2017 A new genus and species of clingfish (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae) from Western Australia. Copeia 105(1):128-140. (Ref. 116784)