Species profile—Mogurnda adspersa (southern purplespotted gudgeon)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) → Eleotridae (gudgeons and sleepers) → Mogurnda adspersa (southern purplespotted gudgeon)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Family
- Eleotridae (gudgeons and sleepers)
- Scientific name
- Mogurnda adspersa (Castelnau, 1878)
- Common name
- southern purplespotted gudgeon
- Type reference
- Castelnau, F.L. (1878) On several new Australian (chiefly) fresh-water-fishes. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 140-144.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 18168
- Alternate name(s)
- purple spotted gudgeon
trout gudgeon
chequered gudgeon
purple-spotted gudgeon
southern purple-spotted gudgeon - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Aquatic
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=18168.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
