Milyeringa justitia
Larson and Foster in Larson, Foster Humphreys and Stevens 2013
| ORDER | SUB-ORDER | FAMILY |
|---|---|---|
| Gobiiformes | Gobioidei | Milyeringidae |
Synonyms
None.
Country
AustraliaTypes
Holotype: WAM P.33166-001 male 19.5mm SL.
Paratypes: WAM P.33135-001 16.0mm SL, 33137-001 female 16.0mm SL, 33167-001 male 19.0mm SL, 33169-001 female 23.0mm SL.
Distribution
Type locality: Old water supply well L8, Barrow Island, Western Australia (20°49'2.31"S, 115°23'41.98"E).
Known also from: Anode Well Q4, Barrow Island, Western Australia (20o59'S, 115o24'E) and Anode Well P2, Barrow Island, Western Australia (20o46'40.07"S, 115o24'41,77"E).
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
Humphreys et al. (2013) list the stygobitic fauna from Barrow Island which will provide much of the food supply for the fishes. 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) (Eberhard and Haworth 2021).
Systematics
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 (all of the members of the Family Milyeringidae as currently understood), supported the erection of a new species for jusitia. They also point out the the mt COI divergence between justitia and veritas is ~20% which is the same as the mt COI divergence between the genus Milyeringa and the genus Typhleotris which are currently the only two genera in the Family. This raises the possibility that justitia may require a third genus to contain it if the Family is to be consistent in its relationships. 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 disttantly related to four others: Odontobutidae, Rhyacichthyidae, Apogonidae and Kurtidae (samples from Thalasseleotridae and Trichonotidae were not availabe for analysis).
Biological Notes
Milyeringa justitia is sympatric with a range of stygiobiont crustaceans including Thermosbaenacea, Atyidae (Decapoda), Hadziidae (Amphipoda), Cirolanidae (Isopoda), many copepod taxa including Ridgewayiidae (Calanoida) and it is also sympatric with a groundwater synbranchid eel which is probabaly Ophisternon candidum or a new species in the same genus (Humphreys 2001, Humphreys et al. 2013).
Conservation Status
MuG [CR B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii):3.1:2019]
With a maximum area of occupancy is 78km2 and the presence on the island of oil and gas installations, the threats to this species, and to Ophisternon candidum with which it co-exists, may be substantial. There is however xxxxxxxxxx
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
As above plus: WAM P.33165-001
Internet Resources
Ningaloo Coast world heritage nimination with details of the subterranean fauna
Milyeringa justitia voucher WAM:P.33135.001 cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI) gene, partial cds; mitochondrial Anode well Q4
Milyeringa justitia voucher Mj_Q4_15151 recombination activating protein (rag1) gene, partial cds Anode well Q4
Milyeringa justitia voucher Mj_L8_14750 recombination activating protein (rag1) gene, partial cds Well L8
Key References
- Michaelis, F. (1985)
- Allen, G.R. (1989)
- Humphreys, W. F. and Adams, M. (1991)
- Allen, G.R. (1992)
- Adams, M. and Humphreys, W.F. (1993)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1993)
- Humphreys, W. F. (1993)
- Humphreys, W.F. (1994)
- Humphreys, W. F. and Feinberg, M. N. (1995)
- 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.R. (2001)
- Wilson, R.S. and Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Humphreys, WF (2001)
- Moore, B.P., Humphreys, W.F., Decu, V. and Juberthie, C. (2001)
- Jaume, D., Boxshall, G.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2001)
- Humphreys, WF (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)
- 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)
- Finston, T.L., Johnson, M.S., Humphreys, W.F., Eberhard, S.M. and Halse, S.A. (2007)
- Humphreys, W.F. (2008)
- 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)
- Environmental Protection Authority (2012)
- Humphreys, W., Tetu, S., Elbourne, L., Gillings, M., Seymour, J., Mitchell, J. and Paulsen, I. (2012)
- Humphreys, W.F (2012)
- Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M.P. and Sparks, J.S. (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, G., Alexander, J., Harvey, M.S. and Humphreys, W.F. (2013)
- 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)
- 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)
- Humphreys, W. F. (2017)
- Page, T.J., Hughes, J.M., Real, K.M., Stevens, M.I., King, R.A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2018)
- Halse, S. (2018)
- Page, T.J.,Stevens, M.I., Adams, M., Foster, R. Velasco-Castrillón, A. and Humphreys, W.F. (2018)
- Perina, G., Camacho, A.I., Huey, J., Horwitz, P., and Koenders, A. (2018)
- Moore, G.I. (2018)
- Moore, G.I., Humphreys, W.F. and Foster, R. (2018)
- Kuang, T., Tornabene, L., Lia, J., Jiang, J., Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S., Naylor, G.J.P. and Lia, C. (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)
- Moore, 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)
| Michaelis, F. | Journal Article | 1985 | Threatened fish. A report on the threatened fish of inland waters of Austalia |
| Allen, G.R. | Book | 1989 | Freshwater fishes of Australia |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.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 |
| Humphreys, WF | Journal Article | 2001 | The subterranean fauna of Barrow Island, northwestern Australia, and its environment |
| Moore, B.P., Humphreys, W.F., Decu, V. and Juberthie, C. | Book Section | 2001 | Australie |
| 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.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 |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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 |
| Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2008 | Rising from down under: developments in subterranean biodiversity in Australia from a groundwater fauna perspective |
| 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 |
| Environmental Protection Authority | Report | 2012 | A review of subterranean fauna assessment in Western Australia. Discussion Paper. February 2012 |
| 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 |
| Humphreys, W.F | Book Section | 2012 | Diversity patterns in Australia |
| 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 |
| 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, G., Alexander, J., Harvey, M.S. and Humphreys, W.F. | Journal Article | 2013 | The subterranean fauna of Barrow Island, northwestern Australia: 10 years on |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Humphreys, W. F. | Book Section | 2017 | Australasian subterranean biodiversity |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kuang, T., Tornabene, L., Lia, J., Jiang, J., Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S., Naylor, G.J.P. and Lia, C. | Journal Article | 2018 | Phylogenomic analysis on the exceptionally diverse fish clade Gobioidei (Actinopterygii: Gobiiformes) and data-filtering based on molecular clocklikeness |
| 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) |
| Moore, G. | Journal Article | 2019 | Milyeringa justitia. Barrow Island cave gudgeon. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T128969918A128970120 |
| 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 |