Milyeringa

Milyeringa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Gobiiformes
Family:	Milyeringidae
Genus:	Milyeringa Whitley, 1945
Type species
Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945[1]

Milyeringa is a genus of blind cavefish from the Cape Range and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia. Although traditionally considered to belong to the family Eleotridae, studies show that they represent a distinct and far-separated lineage together with the Typhleotris cavefish from Madagascar, leading some to move them to their own family, Milyeringidae.[2][3] The generic name is taken from Milyering which is 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Vlamingh Head in the North West Cape of Western Australia, the type locality for Milyeringa veritas.[4]

Species

The recognized species of this genus are:[5]

• Milyeringa brooksi Chakrabarty, 2010[2]
• Milyeringa justitia Larson & Foster, 2013 (Barrow cave gudgeon)[6]
• Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945 (blind gudgeon)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Milyeringa". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
2. 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. 2557: 19–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2557.1.2.
3. Sparks, J. S. & P. Chakrabarty (2012). "Revision of the endemic Malagasy cavefish genus Typhleotris (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Milyeringidae), with discussion of its phylogenetic placement and description of a new species" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (3764): 1–28. doi:10.1206/3764.2. S2CID 85731146.
4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (10 October 2024). "Order GOBIIFORMES: Families RHYACICHTHYIDAE, ODONTOBUTIDAE, MILYERINGIDAE, ELEOTRIDAE, BUTIDAE and THALASSELEOTRIDIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. v. 21.0. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
5. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Milyeringa". FishBase. October 2024 version.
6. Larson, H.K.; Foster, R.; Humphreys, W.F. & Stevens, M.I. (2013). "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. hdl:2440/80787. PMID 24758799.