Galaxiella pusilla Mack 1936
Creators: name: Coleman, Rhys A.
name: Hoffmann, Ary A.
name: Raadik, Tarmo A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Osmeriformes
Galaxiidae
Galaxiella
Galaxiella pusilla

description: 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.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 243-281 in Zootaxa 4021 (2) on pages 266-267, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/236167