On this page...


The following papers published in 2008 have used specimens from the Australian Museum fish collection.


  1. Allen, G.R., Drew, J. & Barber, P. 2008. Cirrhilabrus beauperryi a new wrass (Pisces: Labridae) from Melanesia. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 14 (3): 129-140.
  2. Allen, G.R & M.V. Erdmann, 2008. Paracheilinus nursalim, a new species of flasher wrasse (Perciformes: Labridae) from the Bird's Head Peninsula of western New Guinea with a key to the species of Paracheilinus. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 13 (3-4): 179-188.
  3. Allen, G.R., Unmack, P.J. & R.K. Hadiaty. 2008. Two new species of rainbowfishes (Melanotaenia: Melanotaeniidae), from, western New Guinea (Papua Barat Province, Indonesia). Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 14: 209-224.
  4. Bath, H. 2008. Review of the genus Parablennius Miranda-Ribeiro from Australia and New Caledonia (Pisces: Blennidae: Salariinae) Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 1: 77-94.
  5. Carlson, B.A., Randall, J.E. & M.N. Dawson. 2008. A New Species of Epibulus (Perciformes: Labridae) from the West Pacific. Copeia. 2: 476-483.
  6. Chakrabarty, P. & J.S. Sparks. 2008. Diagnoses for Leiognathus Lacepe`de 1802, Equula Cuvier 1815, Equulites Fowler 1904, Eubleekeria Fowler 1904, and a New Ponyfish Genus (Teleostei: Leiognathidae) American Museum Novitates 3623: 1-11.
  7. Cole, K.S. 2008. Transient ontogenetic expression of hermaphroditic gonad morphology within the Gobiosoma group of the Neotropical seven-spined gobies (Teleostei: Gobiidae) Marine Biology. 154: 943-951.
  8. Compagno, L.J. & P.R. Last. 2008. A new species of wedgefish, Rhynchobatus palpebratus sp. nov. (Rhynchobatoidei: Rhynchobatidae), from the Indo–West Pacific. Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 227-240.
  9. de Carvalho, M. 2008. New species of numbfishes from Australia, with a key to Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 241-260.
  10. Didier, D.A., 2008. Two new species of the genus Hydrolagus Gill (Holocephali: Chimaeridae) from Australia Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 349-356.
  11. Fishelson, L. & O. Gon. 2008. Comparative oogenesis in cardinal fishes (Apogonidae, Perciformes), with special focus on the adaptive structures of the egg envelopes. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 81: 397-414.
  12. Gledhill, D.C., Last, P.R. & W. White. 2008. Resurrection of the genus Figaro Whitley (Carcharhiniformes:Scyliorhinidae) with the description of a new species from northeastern Australia Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 179-187.
  13. Gomon, M.F. 2008. A New Species of the Roughy Genus Hoplostethus (Trachichthyidae) off Northwestern Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 65: 189-194.
  14. Goto, T. 2008. Revision of the wobbegong genus Orectolobus from Japan, with a redescription of Orectolobus japonicus (Elasmobranchii: Orectolobiformes). Ichthyological Research. 55: 133-140.
  15. Ho, H-C., Endo, H & K. Sakamaki. 2008. A New Species of Halicmetus (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae) from the Western Pacific, with Comments on Congeners Zoological Studies 47 (6): 767-773.
  16. Ho, H-C. & K-T. Shao, 2008. A new species of anglerfish (Lophiidae: Lophiodes) from the western Pacific Ichthyological Research 55: 367–373.
  17. Imamura, H. & L. Knapp. 2009. A new species of the flathead genus Onigocia (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) collected from the Coral and Tasman Seas. Zootaxa 23-28.
  18. Imamura, H. & M. McGrouther. 2008. New Records of a Flathead Fish, Onigocia grandisquama (Regan, 1908) (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) From Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 52(2): 239-243.
  19. Iwamoto, T. & K.J. Graham. 2008. Two New Australian Grenadiers of the Coelorinchus fasciatus Species Group (Macrouridae: Gadiformes: Teleostei). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Series 4. 59(5): 133-146.
  20. Jaafar, Z. & H.K. Larson. 2008. A New Species of Mudskipper, Periophthalmus takita (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Oxudercinae), from Australia, with a key to the Genus. Zoological Science 25: 946-952.
  21. Jenkins, A., Allen, G.R. & D. Boseto. 2008. Lentipes solomonensis, a new species of freshwater goby (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Sicydiinae) from the Solomon Islands. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 14 (4): 165-174.
  22. Johnson, J.W. & J.E. Randall. 2008. Synclidopus hogani, a new species of Soleid fish from Northeastern Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 52(2): 245-254.
  23. Kawauchi, J. et al., 2008. Occurrence of the deep-water catsharks Aristurus platyrhynchus and Apristurus pinguis in the Indian and Western South Pacific Oceans (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 75-91.
  24. Kawai, T. 2008. Phylogenetic systematics of the family Peristediidae (Teleostei: Actinopterygii). Species Diversity 13: 1-34.
  25. Kawai, T. & F. Tashiro. 2008. First record of armoured searobin, Satyrichthys adeni, from Suruga Bay, Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 55 (1): 43-47.
  26. Kawai, T. & Y. Takata. 2008. A rare armoured searobin, Satyrichthys clavilapis (Actinopterygii, Teleostei, Peristediidae), from off Java, Indonesia, Eastern Indian Ocean. Biogeography. 10: 27-31.
  27. Last, P.R., et al., 2008. New swellsharks (Cephaloscyllium: Scyliorhinidae) from the Indo-Australian region. Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 129-146.
  28. Nakaya, K., Sato, K. & S.P. Iglésias 2008. Occurrence of Apristurus melanoasper from the South Pacific, Indian and South Atlantic Oceans (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 61-74.
  29. Last, P.R. 2008. New short-snout members of the skate genus Dipturus (Rajoidei: Rajidae) from Australian seas CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 021 53-98.
  30. Last, P.R., et al. 2008. New skates of the genus Dipturus (Rajoidei: Rajidae) from Australian Seas CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 021 9-52.
  31. Last, P.R., B.M. Manjaji-Matsumoto & J.J. Pogonoski. 2008. Himantura astra sp. nov., a new whipray (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae) from northern Australia. Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 303-313.
  32. Last, P.R., Pogonoski, J.J. & W.T. White, 2008. Orectolobus reticulatus sp. nov., a new wobbegong shark (Orectolobiformes: Orectolobidae) from the continental shelf of northwestern Australia Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 39-47.
  33. Last, P.R. & W. White. 2008. Two new saddled swellsharks (Cephaloscyllium: Scyliorhinidae) from eastern Australia Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 159-170.
  34. Leis, J.M. 2008. Larval development in the lutjanid subfamily Lutjaninae (Pisces): the Indo-Pacific genus Pinjalo. Zootaxa. 1760: 37-49.
  35. Kimura, S. & K. Ikejima. 2008. Revision of the genus Nuchequula with descriptions of three new species (Perciformes: Leiognathidae). Ichthyological Research. 55: 22–42.
  36. Markle, S. 2008. Sharks. Biggest! Littlest! Boyds Mills Press. Pp. 32.
  37. McEachran, J. & P.R. Last. 2008. New deepwater skates of the genus Notoraja (Rajoidei: Arhynchobatidae) from southern Australia and the eastern Indian Ocean CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 021 155-172.
  38. Melo, M. 2008. The genus Kali Lloyd (Chiasmodontidae:Teleostei) with description of two new species, and the revalidation of K. kerberti Weber. Zootaxa. 1747:1-33.
  39. Murdy, E.O., 2008. Trypauchenichthys larsonae, a new species of amblyopine goby from Australia (Gobiidae: Amblyopinae) with a key to the species in the genus Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 14 (2): 59-68.
  40. Randall, J.E., et al., 2008. Xyrichtys pastellus, a new razorfish from the southwest Pacific, with discussion of the related X. sciistius and X. woodi. Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 14 (3): 149-158.
  41. Randall, J.E. & P. Munday. 2008. Vanderhorstia steelei, a new shrimpgoby from the Society Islands Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 14 (1): 35-41.
  42. Randall, J.E., Williams, J.T. & L.A. Roxha. 2008. The Indo-Pacific tetraodontid fish Canthigaster coronata, a complex of three species Smithiana 9: 3-13.
  43. Sato, K., Nakaya, K. & M. Yorozu. 2008. Apristurus australis sp. nov., a new long-snout catshark (Chondrichthys: Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Australia Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 113-127.
  44. Seret, B. & P.R. Last. 2008. A new Australian skate of the genus Dipturus (Rajoidei: Rajidae) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 021 99-108.
  45. Speed, C.W., Meekan, M.G., Russell, B.C. & C.J.A. Bradshaw. 2008. Recent whale shark (Rhincodon typus) beach strandings in Australia. JMBA2 – Biology Records, published online.
  46. Springer, V.G. & W.F. Smith-Vaniz, 2008. Supraneural and pterygiophore insertion patterns in carangid fishes, with description of a new Eocene carangid tribe, Paratrachinotini, and a survey of enterior anal-fin pterygiophore insertion patterns in Acanthomorpha. Bulletin of the biological society of Washington 16: 73.
  47. Vachon, J., Chapleu, F. & F. Desoutter-Meniger. 2008. Révision taxinomique du genre Solea et réhabilitation du genre Barnardichthys (Soleidae; Rleuronectiformes) Cybium. 32(1): 9-26.
  48. White, W.T., Ebert, D.A. & L.J.V. Compagno. 2008. Description of two new species of gulper sharks, genus Centrophorus (Chondrichthyes: Squaliformes: Centrophoridae) from Australia Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 1-21.
  49. Yearsley, G., Last, P. & M. F. Gomon, 2008. Trygonoptera imitata sp. nov., a new stingaree (Myliobatoidei: Urolophidae) from southeastern Australia. Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper No. 022 261-267.