Dalhousie goby

The Dalhousie goby (Chlamydogobius gloveri) is a species of goby endemic to Australia where it lives in the Dalhousie Springs. It feeds on small molluscs, crustaceans and other odds and ends like most other gobies. This species can reach a standard length of 4.5 centimetres (1.8 in).[2]

Dalhousie goby

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Gobiiformes
Family: Oxudercidae
Genus: Chlamydogobius
Species:
C. gloveri
Binomial name
Chlamydogobius gloveri
Larson, 1995

Etymology

The species is named "gloveri" in honour of the late John Glover, a former Curator of Fishes at the South Australian Museum, who worked extensively on desert gobies and other taxa of fishes found in the deserts of Australia. Glover was sure that this goby was a distinct species from Chlamydogobius eremius but he did not describe it.[3]

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References
  1. Hammer, M., Whiterod, N., Unmack, P., Mathwin, R. & Gotch, T. (2019). "Chlamydogobius gloveri". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2019: e.T4700A129047514.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Chlamydogobius gloveri" in FishBase. June 2013 version.
  3. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (6 December 2017). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Family OXUDERCIDAE (a-o)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
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