Milyeringa

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Milyeringa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Eleotridae
Genus: Milyeringa
Whitley, 1945
Type species
Milyeringa veritas
Whitley, 1945

Milyeringa is a genus of blind cave-fish from the Cape Range and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. The genus has traditionally been placed in Eleotridae, but it is of uncertain placement within Gobioidei and some have tentatively placed it in its own family Milyeringidae.[1]

Species

  • Milyeringa brooksi Chakrabarty, 2010[1]
  • Mileyeringa justicia Larson & Foster, 2013 (Barrow Cave Gudgeon)[2]
  • Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945 (Blind gudgeon)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Chakrabarty, 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, 2427: 15–24.
  2. Larson; Foster; Humphreys; Stevens. "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. 
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