Milyeringa veritas
Whitley 1945
| ORDER | SUB-ORDER | FAMILY |
|---|---|---|
| Gobiiformes | Gobioidei | Milyeringidae |
Note
Photo of Milyeringa veritas by David Morgan and used with permission
Synonyms
Milyeringa brooksi Chakrabarty 2010
Synonymised with Milyeringa veritas by Larson et al. (2013).
Country
AustraliaTypes
Holotype: WAM P.2913-001, 40.5mm SL. This species is the type species by original designation and monotypy of the cave restricted genus Milyeringa, and the genus is the type genus of the family Milyeringidae.
Distribution
Type locality: Milyering Well (=C-24), near Yardie Creek Station, North West Cape, Western Australia (22o01’S, 113o56’E). Details of all other known locations are given in Humphreys (1999) and summarised below. One further site is given in Page et al. (2018). At ten locations within Cape Range this species has been seen at sites from which Ophisternon candidum has also been recorded (Humphreys and Adams 1991, Adams and Humphreys 1993, Humphreys 1993, Knott 1993). The range of Ophisternon candidum has recently been extended to the east of the Pilbara region, but to date M. veritas has not been found in this area (Moore et al. 2018).
| Area | Site No. | Site name | Species | Latitude, longitude | Clade | References | ||
| CRE | C-27 | Kubura Well | Mv, Oc |
|
veritas | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRE | C-495 | New Mowbowra Cave | Mv, Oc |
|
veritas | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRE | C-361 | Mowbowra Well | Mv, Oc |
|
veritas | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRE | C-23 | Dozer Cave | Mv, Oc | veritas? | Humphreys (1999) | |||
| CRE | C-282 | Ned's well | Mv | veritas? | Humphreys (1999) | |||
| CRE | C-452 | Cameron's Cave | Mv | veritas? | Humphreys (1999) | |||
| CRE | WC44 | None | Mv | veritas? | Humphreys (1999) | |||
| CRW | C-414 | Wobiri Rock Hole | Mv, Oc |
|
veritas | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | C-273 | Five Mile Well | Mv |
|
veritas | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | None | Ampolex D | Mv |
|
vertitas | Page et al. (2018) | ||
| CRW | C-25 | Kudumurra | Mv, Oc |
|
veritas brooksi | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | C-24 | Milyering Well | Mv Oc |
|
veritas | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | C-149 | Tulki Well | Mv |
|
brooksi | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | C-274 | Pilgramunna Well | Mv, Oc |
|
brooksi | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | C-28 | Bundera | Mv | brooksi | Humphreys (1999) | |||
| CRW | C-362 | Javis Well | Mv |
|
brooksi | Humphreys (1999) | ||
| CRW | C-215 | Unnamed | Mv, Oc | 22o2'S 113o56' E | brooksi? | |||
| CRW | C-332 | Tantabiddi Rockholes | Mv | brooksi? | Humphreys (1999) |
The distribution of Milyeringa veritas. Mv Milyeringa veritas, Oc Ophisternon candidum, CRE Cape Eange East, CRW Cape Range West
Various stygobitic Crustacea are found in Cape Range, eastern Pilbara and Barrow Island and their biogeography can help to inform us about the distribution and ages of the fish taxa there. The following sources are useful in this regard:
Humphreys (1993) Stygofauna and a Tethyan connection
Yager and Humphreys (1996) Lasionectes exleyi (Crustacea: Remipedia)
Page et al. (2008) Stygiocaris (Decapoda: Atyidae)
Page et al. (2018) Halosbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea)
Matthews et al. (2019) Parabathnellidae diversity in Pilbara
Habitat
Found in both freshwater and anchialine systems from close to the coast up to 4.3 km inland. Seen at karst windows and a depths of up to 33m. Collected from boreholes very remote from any opening to the surface (details from Humphreys 2001). The food of this species (and of Ophisternon candidum) was examined by Humphreys and Feinberg (1995). They found that 79% of the intake was terrestrial fauna in the form of Isopoda, Trichoptera, Hymenoptera and cockroaches. Only 10% maximum intake was from consumption of other cave animals. The Cape Range karst is the 4th most biodiverse subterranean habitat in Australia with 83 obligate subterranean species (41 terrestrial and 42 aquatic). The Barrow Island Karst is the 5th most diverse with 74 obligate species (18 terrestrial and 56 aquatic) (Ebergard and Haworth 2021).
Systematics
Whitley (1945) erected the family Milyeringidae to contain this species because it differed from the Eleotridae by having no eyes and reduced ventral and dorsal fins. Subsequent authors (e.g. Greenwood Rosen, Weizman and Myers 1966, Nelson 1994) have not recognised this family and have placed the species in the Eleotridae. Hoese and Gill (1993) made a thorough study of eleotridid fishes within the family Gobiidae and placed the genus Milyeringa in the subfamily Butinae together with the genus Typhleotris.
Larson and Foster, in Larson, Foster Humphreys and Stevens 2013, descibed a second species in the genus, Milyeringa justitia, from Barrow Island, offshore from the Western Cape.
Larson et al. (2013) synonymised M brooksi with M. veritas but there is a clear genetic and geographic difference between the two (their Figure 3) with the brooksi clade, concentrated at sites in south west cape Range, sister to the veritas clade, concentrated at sites in north west and east Cape Range, with an overlap only at C-25, Kudumurra Well. A comprehensive molecular analysis by Page et al. (2018), with data from M. veritas, M. brooksi, M. justitia, Typhleotris madagascariensis, T. pauliani and T. mararybe, supported the erection of a new species for jusitia and the synonymisation of brooksi with veritas. However, their data still show a clear sister relationship between the latter two taxa.
Their data also strongly support the placement of both Milyeringa and Typhleotris in the Family Milyeringidae as suggested by Chakrabarty et al. (2012) and Sparks and Chakrabarty (2012).
Kuang et al. (2018) used molecular markers to study the internal structure of the Suborder Gobioidei which contains within it eleven Families. They demonstrated that Milyeringidae is sister Family to a group of four Families: Oxudercidae+Gobiidae+Butidae+ Eleotridae and is only distantly related to four others: Odontobutidae, Rhyacichthyidae, Apogonidae and Kurtidae (samples from Thalasseleotridae and Trichonotidae were not availabe for analysis).
Conservation Status
MuG [EN B1ab(ii,iii)+2ab(ii,iii): 3.1: 2019]
R (IUCN 1994), DD (IUCN 1996, 2000). Rare (Michaelis 1985). Humphreys and Adams (1991) document an incursion of saline water into the freshwater aquifer which, if real and continuous, will represent a dangerous threat to this and other stygobitic species in the coastal fringe of the Cape Range. This fringe is outside of the Cape Range National Park and therefore does not get the protection offered to sites within it.
From the pont of view of conservation the principle of precaution should hold and if this is done in this case the clade brooksi should be considered, at minimum, as an evolutionary significan unit (ESU) and not sunk entirely into the veritas clade ss.
The conservation of karst sites, and their fauna, in western Autralia is considered in a very detailed report by the Environmental Protection Authority (2012).
Museum Holdings
26 specimens at the Western Australian Museum, Perth (Whittaker and Kritski 1973), AMS I.21336-001 4 specimens 31-43mm SL (Hoese and Gill 1993), AMNH 45497, AMNH 48568 (Humphreys and Feinberg 1995).
Internet Resources
Ningaloo Coast world heritage nomination with details of the subterranean fauna
Key References
- Whitley, G. P. (1945)
- Holthuis, L. B. (1960)
- Mees, G.F. (1962)
- Richards, A. M. (1963)
- Cawthorn, P. (1963)
- Whittaker, F. H. and Kritsky, D. C. (1973)
- Merrick, J. R. and Schmida, G. E. (1984)
- Michaelis, F. (1985)
- Young, M. (1986)
- Allen, G.R. (1989)
- Pollard, D. A., Ingram, B. A., Harris, J. H. and Reynolds, L. F. (1990)
- Humphreys, W. F. and Adams, M. (1991)
- Allen, G.R. (1992)
- Adams, M. and Humphreys, W.F. (1993)
- Knott, B. (1993)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1993)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1993)
- Hoese, D.F. and Gill, A.C. (1993)
- Humphreys, W.F. (1994)
- Humphreys, W. F. and Feinberg, M. N. (1995)
- Yager, J. and Humphreys, W. F. (1996)
- Eberhard, S. and Hamilton-Smith, E. (1996)
- Hamilton-Smith, E., Kiernan, K. and Spate, A. (1996)
- Humphreys, W.F. (1997)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1999)
- Humphreys, W.F., Poole, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Warren, D. (1999)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1999)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2000)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2000)
- Romero, A. and Vanselow, P.B.S. (2000)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Humphreys, WF (2001)
- Jaume, D., Boxshall, G.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Humphreys, W.R. (2001)
- Wilson, R.S. and Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Moore, B.P., Humphreys, W.F., Decu, V. and Juberthie, C. (2001)
- Unmack, P.J. (2001)
- Boulton, A.J., Humphreys, W,F. and Eberhard, S.M. (2003)
- Hancock, P.J., Boulton, A.J. and Humphreys, W.F. (2005)
- Thacker, C.E. and Hardman, M. (2005)
- Eberhard, S.M., Halse, S.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2005)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2006)
- Humphreys, W.F., Shiao, J.-C., Iizuka, Y. and Tzeng, W.-N. (2006)
- Seymour, J.R., Humphreys, W.F. and Mitchell, J.G. (2007)
- Finston, T.L., Johnson, M.S., Humphreys, W.F., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. (2007)
- Page, T.J., Humphreys, W.F. and Hughes, J.M. (2008)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2008)
- Thacker, C.E. (2009)
- Humphreys, W.F., Watts, C.H.S., Cooper, S.J.B. and Leijs, R. (2009)
- Collins, L.B. and Stevens, A. (2010)
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (2010)
- Chakrabarty, P. (2010)
- Humphreys, W., Tetu, S., Elbourne, L., Gillings, M., Seymour, J., Mitchell, J. and Paulsen, I. (2012)
- Abrams, K. M., Guzik, M.T., Cooper, S.J.B., Humphreys, W.F., King, R.A., Cho J.L. and Austin, A.D. (2012)
- Humphreys, W.F (2012)
- Environmental Protection Authority (2012)
- Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M.P. and Sparks, J.S. (2012)
- Sparks, J.S. and Chakrabarty, P. (2012)
- Larson, H.K., Foster, R., Humphreys, W.F. and Stevens, M. (2013)
- Tornabene, L., Chen, Y.G. and Pezold, F. (2013)
- Unmack, P.J. (2013)
- Humphreys, G., Alexander, J., Harvey, M.S. and Humphreys, W.F. (2013)
- Halse, S., Scanlon, M., Cocking, J., Barron, H., Richardson, J. and Eberhard, S. (2014)
- Morgan, D.L., Unmack, P.J., Beatty, S.J., Ebner, B.C., Allen, M.G., Keleher, J., Donaldson, J.A. and Murphy, J. (2014)
- Bishop, R.E., Humphreys, W.F., Cukrov, N., Zic, V., Boxshall, G.A., Cukrov, M., Iliffe, T.M., Krsinic, F., Moore, W.S., Pohlman, J.W., and Sket, B. (2015)
- Rasoloariniaina, J.R., Ganzhorn, J.U., Riemann, J.C. and Raminosoa, N. (2016)
- Humphreys, W. F. (2017)
- Moore, G.I. (2018)
- Moore, G.I., Humphreys, W.F. and Foster, R. (2018)
- Halse, S. (2018)
- Page, T.J.,Stevens, M.I., Adams, M., Foster, R. Velasco-Castrillón, A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2018)
- Page, T.J., Hughes, J.M., Real, K.M., Stevens, M.I., King, R.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2018)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., and Koenders, A. (2018)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. (2019)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. (2019)
- Matthews, E.F., Abrams, K.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Huey, J.A., Hillyer, M.J., Humphreys, W.F., Austin, A.D. and Guzik, M.T. (2019)
- Perina, G. (2019)
- White, N.E., Guzik, M.T., Austin, A.D., Moore, G.I. Humphreys, W.F., Alexander, J. and Bunce, M. (2020)
- Shelley, J.J., Swearer, S.E., Dempster, T., Adams, M., Le Feuvre, M.C., Hammer, M.P. and Unmack, P.J. (2020)
- Lintermans, M., Geyle, H.M., Beatty, S., Brown, C., Ebner, B.C., Freeman, R., Hammer, M.P., Humphreys, W.F., Kennard, M.J., Kern, P., Martin, K., Morgan, D.L., Raadik, T.A., Unmack, P.J., Wager, R., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Garnett, S.T. (2020)
- Eberhard, S.M. and Howarth, F.G. (2021)
- Saccò, M., Blyth, A.J., Douglas, G., Humphreys, W.F., Hose, G.C., Davis, J., Guzik, M.T., Martínez, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. (2022)
- Gierl, C., Dohrmann, M., Keith, P., Humphreys, W.J., Esmaeili, H.R., Vukić, J., Radek, S. and ReichenbacherI, B. (2022)
- Saccò, M., Guzik, M.T., van der Heyde, M., Nevill, P., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D., Coates, P.J. and Allentoft, M.E. (2022)
- Webb, J.A., White, S.Q. and Smith, G.K. (2023)
- White, S.Q., Brooks, D. and Webb, J.A. (2023)
- van der Heyde, M., Alexander, J., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. (2023)
- van der Heyde, M., White, N.E., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. (2023)
- Thacker, C.E., McCraney, W.T., Harrington, R.C., Near, T.J., Shelley, J.J., Adams, M., Hammer, M.P. and Unmack, P.J. (2023)
| Whitley, G. P. | Journal Article | 1945 | New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 2 |
| Holthuis, L. B. | Journal Article | 1960 | Two new species of Atyid shrimps from subterranean waters of N.W. Australia (Decapoda, Natantia) |
| Mees, G.F. | Journal Article | 1962 | The subterranean freshwater fauna of Yardie Creek Station, North West Cape, Western Australia |
| Richards, A. M. | Journal Article | 1963 | The subterranean freshwater fauna of North West Cape, Western Australia |
| Cawthorn, P. | Journal Article | 1963 | Discovery of subterranean freshwater fauna on the eastern side of North West Cape |
| Whittaker, F. H. and Kritsky, D. C. | Journal Article | 1973 | An examination of the Australian blind cavefish Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945, for helminth parasites |
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| Pollard, D. A., Ingram, B. A., Harris, J. H. and Reynolds, L. F. | Journal Article | 1990 | Threatened fishes in Australia - an overview |
| Humphreys, W. F. and Adams, M. | Journal Article | 1991 | The subterranean aquatic fauna of the North West Cape peninsula, Western Australia |
| Allen, G.R. | Book | 1992 | Inland Fishes of Western Australia |
| Adams, M. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 1993 | Patterns of genetic diversity within selected subterranean fauna of the Cape Range penninsula, Western Australia: Systematic and biogeographic implications |
| Knott, B. | Journal Article | 1993 | Stygofauna of the Cape Range penninsula, Western Australia: Tethyan relicts |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Book | 1993 | The biogeography of Cape Range, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1993 | The significance of the subterranean fauna in biogeographical reconstruction: Examples from Cape Range Peninsula, Western Australia |
| Hoese, D.F. and Gill, A.C. | Journal Article | 1993 | Phylogenetic relationships of eleotridid fishes (Perciformes, Gobioidei) |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 1994 | The subterranean fauna of the Cape Range coastal plane, Northwestern Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. and Feinberg, M. N. | Journal Article | 1995 | Food of the blind cave fishes of Northwestern Australia |
| Yager, J. and Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1996 | Lasionectes exleyi sp. nov. the first Remipede crustacean recorded from Australia and the Indian Ocean, with a key to the world species |
| Eberhard, S. and Hamilton-Smith, E. | Journal Article | 1996 | Conservation of cave fauna in Australia |
| Hamilton-Smith, E., Kiernan, K. and Spate, A. | Journal Article | 1996 | Karst management considerations for the Cape Range karst province, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Book Section | 1997 | Protection of arid karstlands on the Cape Range Penninsula, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1999 | The distribution of Australian cave fishes |
| Humphreys, W.F., Poole, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Warren, D. | Journal Article | 1999 | Effects of research diving on the physico-chemical profile of Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine remiped habitat at Cape Range, Western Australia |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Journal Article | 1999 | Physico-chemical profile and energy fixation in Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine remiped habitat in north-western Australia |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Book Section | 2000 | The hypogean fauna of the Cape Range Peninsula and Barrow Island, northwestern Australia |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Book Section | 2000 | Background and glossary |
| Romero, A. and Vanselow, P.B.S. | Journal Article | 2000 | Threatened fishes of the world: Milyeringa veritas Whitley, 1945 (Eleotridae) |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2001 | Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), a remarkably versatile cave fish from the arid tropics of northwestern Australia |
| Humphreys, WF | Journal Article | 2001 | The subterranean fauna of Barrow Island, northwestern Australia, and its environment |
| Jaume, D., Boxshall, G.A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2001 | New stygobiont copepods (Calanoida; Misophrioida) from Bundera sinkhole, an anchialine cenote on north-western Australia |
| Humphreys, W.R. | Journal Article | 2001 | Groundwater calcrete aquifers in the Australian arid zone: the context to an unfolding plethora of stygal biodiversity |
| Wilson, R.S. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2001 | Prionospio thalajani sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from an anchialine cave, Cape range, north-western Australia |
| Moore, B.P., Humphreys, W.F., Decu, V. and Juberthie, C. | Book Section | 2001 | Australie |
| Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2001 | Biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes |
| Boulton, A.J., Humphreys, W,F. and Eberhard, S.M. | Journal Article | 2003 | Imperilled subsurface waters in Ausralia: biodiversity, threatening processes and conservation |
| Hancock, P.J., Boulton, A.J. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2005 | Aquifers and hyporheic zones: Towards an ecological understanding of groundwater. |
| Thacker, C.E. and Hardman, M. | Journal Article | 2005 | Molecular phylogeny of basal gobiod fishes: Rhyacichthyidae, Odontobutidae, Xenisthmidae, Eleotridae (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei) |
| Eberhard, S.M., Halse, S.A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2005 | Stygofauna in the Pilbara region, north-west Western Australia: a review |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2006 | Aquifers: the ultimate groundwater-dependent ecosystems |
| Humphreys, W.F., Shiao, J.-C., Iizuka, Y. and Tzeng, W.-N. | Journal Article | 2006 | Can otolith microchemistry reveal whether the blind cave gudgeon, Milyeringa veritas (Eleotridae), is diadromous within a subterranean estuary? |
| Seymour, J.R., Humphreys, W.F. and Mitchell, J.G. | Journal Article | 2007 | Stratification of the microbial community inhabiting an anchialine sinkhole. |
| Finston, T.L., Johnson, M.S., Humphreys, W.F., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. | Journal Article | 2007 | Cryptic speciation in two widespread subterranean amphipod genera reflects historical drainage patterns in an ancient landscape |
| Page, T.J., Humphreys, W.F. and Hughes, J.M. | Journal Article | 2008 | Shrimps downunder: Evolutionary relationships of subterranean crustaceans from Western Australia (Decapods: Atyidae: Stygiocaris) |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2008 | Rising from down under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective |
| Thacker, C.E. | Journal Article | 2009 | Phylogeny of Gobioidei and placement within Acanthomorpha, with a new classification abd investigation of diversification and character evolution |
| Humphreys, W.F., Watts, C.H.S., Cooper, S.J.B. and Leijs, R. | Journal Article | 2009 | Groundwater estuaries of salt lakes: buried pools of endemic biodiversity on the western plateau, Australia |
| Collins, L.B. and Stevens, A. | Report | 2010 | Assessment of coastal groundwater and linkages with Ningaloo Reef – final report February 2010 |
| Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts | Report | 2010 | Ningaloo Coast World Heritage nomination |
| Chakrabarty, P. | Journal Article | 2010 | Status and phylogeny of Milyerigidae (Teleostei:Gobiiformes), with the description of a new blind cave-fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp. |
| Humphreys, W., Tetu, S., Elbourne, L., Gillings, M., Seymour, J., Mitchell, J. and Paulsen, I. | Journal Article | 2012 | Geochemical and microbial diversity of Bundera Sinkhole, an anchialine system in the eastern Indian Ocean |
| Abrams, K. M., Guzik, M.T., Cooper, S.J.B., Humphreys, W.F., King, R.A., Cho J.L. and Austin, A.D. | Journal Article | 2012 | What lies beneath: molecular phylogenetics and ancestral state reconstruction of the ancient subterranean Australian Parabathynellidae (Syncarida, Crustacea) |
| Humphreys, W.F | Book Section | 2012 | Diversity patterns in Australia |
| Environmental Protection Authority | Report | 2012 | A review of subterranean fauna assessment in Western Australia. Discussion Paper. February 2012 |
| Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M.P. and Sparks, J.S. | Journal Article | 2012 | The first record of a trans-oceanic sister-group relationship between obligate vertebrate troglobites |
| Sparks, J.S. and Chakrabarty, P. | Journal Article | 2012 | Revision of the endemic Malagasy cavefish genus Typhleotris (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Milyeringidae) with discussion of its phylogenetic placement and description of a new species |
| Larson, H.K., Foster, R., Humphreys, W.F. and Stevens, M. | Journal Article | 2013 | A new species of blind cave gudgeon Milyeringa (Pisces: Gobioidei, Eleotridaee) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a redescription of M. veritas Whitley |
| Tornabene, L., Chen, Y.G. and Pezold, F. | Journal Article | 2013 | Gobies are deeply divided: phylogenetic evidence from nuclear DNA (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Gobiidae) |
| Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2013 | Biogeography |
| Humphreys, G., Alexander, J., Harvey, M.S. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2013 | The subterranean fauna of Barrow Island, northwestern Australia: 10 years on |
| Halse, S., Scanlon, M., Cocking, J., Barron, H., Richardson, J. and Eberhard, S. | Journal Article | 2014 | Pilbara stygofauna: deep groundwater of an arid landscape contains globally significant radiation of biodiversity |
| Morgan, D.L., Unmack, P.J., Beatty, S.J., Ebner, B.C., Allen, M.G., Keleher, J., Donaldson, J.A. and Murphy, J. | Journal Article | 2014 | An overview of the 'freshwater fishes' of Western Australia |
| Bishop, R.E., Humphreys, W.F., Cukrov, N., Zic, V., Boxshall, G.A., Cukrov, M., Iliffe, T.M., Krsinic, F., Moore, W.S., Pohlman, J.W., and Sket, B. | Journal Article | 2015 | ‘Anchialine’ redefined as a subterranean estuary in a crevicular or cavernous geological setting |
| Rasoloariniaina, J.R., Ganzhorn, J.U., Riemann, J.C. and Raminosoa, N. | Journal Article | 2016 | Water quality and biotic interaction of two cavefish species: Typhleotris madagascariensis Petit, 1933 and Typhleotris maraybe Sparks and Chakrabarty, 2012, in the Mahafaly Plateau groundwater syste, Madagascar |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Book Section | 2017 | Australasian subterranean biodiversity |
| Moore, G.I. | Journal Article | 2018 | New morphological data and live photographs of the rare subterranean blind cave eel Ophisternon candidum (Synbranchidae) from north‑western Australia |
| Moore, G.I., Humphreys, W.F. and Foster, R. | Journal Article | 2018 | New populations of the rare subterranean Blind Cave Eel Ophisternon candidum (Synbranchidae) reveal recent historical connections throughout northwestern Australia |
| Halse, S. | Book Section | 2018 | Subterranean fauna of the arid zone |
| Page, T.J.,Stevens, M.I., Adams, M., Foster, R. Velasco-Castrillón, A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2018 | Multiple molecular markers reinforce the systematic framework of unique Australian cave fishes (Milyeringa : Gobioidei) |
| Page, T.J., Hughes, J.M., Real, K.M., Stevens, M.I., King, R.A. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2018 | Allegory of a cave crustacean: systematic and biogeographic reality of Halosbaena (Peracarida: Thermosbaenacea) sought with molecular data at multiple scales |
| Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., and Koenders, A. | Journal Article | 2018 | Understanding subterranean variability: the first genus of Bathynellidae (Bathynellacea, Crustacea) from Western Australia described through a morphological and multigene approach |
| Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. | Journal Article | 2019 | New Bathynellidae (Crustacea) taxa and their relationships in the Fortescue catchment aquifers of the Pilbara region, Western Australia, Systematics and Biodiversity |
| Perina, G., Camacho, A., Huey, J., Horwitz, P. and Koenders, A. | Journal Article | 2019 | The role of allopatric speciation and ancient origins of Bathynellidae (Crustacea) in the Pilbara (Western Australia): two new genera from the De Grey River catchment |
| Matthews, E.F., Abrams, K.M., Cooper, S.J.B., Huey, J.A., Hillyer, M.J., Humphreys, W.F., Austin, A.D. and Guzik, M.T. | Journal Article | 2019 | Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia |
| Perina, G. | Thesis | 2019 | Ancient origins of a diverse stygofaunal group: The Australian Bathynellidae (Crustacea) |
| White, N.E., Guzik, M.T., Austin, A.D., Moore, G.I. Humphreys, W.F., Alexander, J. and Bunce, M. | Journal Article | 2020 | Detection of rare Australian endemic blind cave eel (Ophisternon candidum) with environmental DNA: implications for threatened species management in subterranean environments |
| Shelley, J.J., Swearer, S.E., Dempster, T., Adams, M., Le Feuvre, M.C., Hammer, M.P. and Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2020 | Plio-Pleistocene sea-level changes drive speciation of freshwater fishes in north-western Australia |
| Lintermans, M., Geyle, H.M., Beatty, S., Brown, C., Ebner, B.C., Freeman, R., Hammer, M.P., Humphreys, W.F., Kennard, M.J., Kern, P., Martin, K., Morgan, D.L., Raadik, T.A., Unmack, P.J., Wager, R., Woinarski, J.C.Z. and Garnett, S.T. | Journal Article | 2020 | Big trouble for little fish: identifying Australian freshwater fishes in imminent risk of extinction |
| Eberhard, S.M. and Howarth, F.G. | Journal Article | 2021 | Undara lava cave fauna in tropical Queensland with an annotated list of Australian subterranean biodiversity hotspots |
| Saccò, M., Blyth, A.J., Douglas, G., Humphreys, W.F., Hose, G.C., Davis, J., Guzik, M.T., Martínez, A., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. | Journal Article | 2022 | Stygofaunal diversity and ecological sustainability of coastal groundwater ecosystems in a changing climate: The Australian paradigm |
| Gierl, C., Dohrmann, M., Keith, P., Humphreys, W.J., Esmaeili, H.R., Vukić, J., Radek, S. and ReichenbacherI, B. | Journal Article | 2022 | An integrative phylogenetic approach for inferring relationships of fossil gobioids (Teleostei: Gobiiformes) |
| Saccò, M., Guzik, M.T., van der Heyde, M., Nevill, P., Cooper, S.J.B., Austin, A.D., Coates, P.J. and Allentoft, M.E. | Journal Article | 2022 | eDNA in subterranean ecosystems: Applications, technical aspects, and future prospects |
| Webb, J.A., White, S.Q. and Smith, G.K. | Book | 2023 | Australian caves and karst systems |
| White, S.Q., Brooks, D. and Webb, J.A. | Book Section | 2023 | Cape Range |
| van der Heyde, M., Alexander, J., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. | Journal Article | 2023 | Rapid detection of subterranean fauna from passive sampling of groundwater eDNA |
| van der Heyde, M., White, N.E., Nevill, P., Austin, A.D., Stevens, N., Jones, M. and Guzik, M.T. | Journal Article | 2023 | Taking eDNA underground: factors affecting eDNA detection of subterranean fauna in groundwater |
| Thacker, C.E., McCraney, W.T., Harrington, R.C., Near, T.J., Shelley, J.J., Adams, M., Hammer, M.P. and Unmack, P.J. | Journal Article | 2023 | Diversification of the sleepers (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) and evolution of the root gobioid families |