WoRMS taxon details
Galaxias fasciatus Gray, 1842
280810 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:280810)
accepted
Species
Galaxias brocchus Richardson, 1848 · unaccepted
Galaxias reticulatus Richardson, 1848 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gray, J. E. (1842). Three hitherto unrecorded species of fresh-water fish, brought from New Zealand and presented to the British Museum by Dr. Dieffenbach. <em>Zoological Miscellany.</em> [No. 1]: 73. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Galaxias fasciatus Gray, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=280810 on 2025-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray, J. E. (1842). Three hitherto unrecorded species of fresh-water fish, brought from New Zealand and presented to the British Museum by Dr. Dieffenbach. <em>Zoological Miscellany.</em> [No. 1]: 73. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Galaxias brocchus Richardson, 1848)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Galaxias reticulatus Richardson, 1848)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Galaxias fasciatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Galaxias reticulatus Richardson, 1848)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Galaxias brocchus Richardson, 1848)
To FishBase images (Galaxias fasciatus, New Zealand, by Kerr, V.)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Galaxias brocchus Richardson, 1848)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Galaxias reticulatus Richardson, 1848)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Galaxias fasciatus)
To FishBase (from synonym Galaxias reticulatus Richardson, 1848)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Galaxias brocchus Richardson, 1848)
To FishBase images (Galaxias fasciatus, New Zealand, by Kerr, V.)
To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To ITIS
