Galaxias terenasus, Raadik, 2014

Raadik, Tarmo A., 2014, Fifteen from one: a revision of the Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 complex (Teleostei, Galaxiidae) in south-eastern Australia recognises three previously described taxa and describes 12 new species, Zootaxa 3898 (1), pp. 1-198 : 198

Galaxias terenasus sp. nov.

NSW: AMS IA.7904–7906 (3), [Bombala R (?)], near Bombala, 1938; BMNH 1914.8.20.67–68 (2), [Curry Flat Crk?] Curry Flat, Nimmitabel, c. 1914 (digital image seen); NMV A.30581-1 (8), Church Crk, Bombala/Delegate Rd, E of Delegate, 15 November 1965.

APPENDIX 6. Galaxias ‘guttatus’

Six specimens registered as Galaxias guttatus (NMW 78274) from South Australia (‘Süd Australien’) were located in the collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. The specimens were requested on loan, examined and found to conform to Galaxias olidus Günther, 1866 . The specimen label attributes the species to (possibly) Mc Clelland (‘Mc. Cl.’), contains the date 1886, the number 31 or 32, and the name ‘Schneider’, who may possibly have collected or identified the specimens.

The history of this specimen lot is unknown and no published reference has been found to the specific name ‘guttatus’ in Galaxiidae nomenclature (Eschmeyer & Frike 2013). The specimens are unlikely to have been confused with the cyprinid Barbus guttatus McClelland, 1839 , from Bhutan, a synonym of Schizothorax richardsonii (Gray 1832). The specific name is possibly from an unpublished manuscript or a complete error and the identity of ‘Mc Cl.’ remains unknown. Consequently the name is considered invalid and has no taxonomic significance.