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
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://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.
