>From: Helen.Larson at DWNMUS.MAGNT.nt.gov.au
>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 11:04:55 +0930
>Subject: Re: [RML] NG Goby
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> Hello HM Hanslin,
> If you have the catalogue number of this fish, I can tell you what
> it is - assuming it is a Brachygobius or Pandaka or relative - as I've
> got a lot of these fish on loan from USNM. Am slowly revising
> Brachygobius (in part with Chavalit Vidthayanon).
> So far Brachygobius firmly believes in Wallace's Line and hasn't
> turned up anywhere in PNG.
>
> Helen
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>Subject: [RML] NG Goby
>Author: rainbowfish-owner at pcug.org.au at SMTP
>Date: 4/29/97 10:04 AM
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>Searching the NMNH collections at Smithsonian, I found a record of
>Brachygobius sp. from PNG, collected in Mangrove Creek flowing into Oro
>Bay, Popondetta district. This genus was not included in Allen's "FW
>fishes of NG", a book including many brackish species and also some
>species collected only once. The collector, T. Roberts, has collected
>Brachygobius from many other locations, so I asume he is familiar with
>the genus.
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>Do anyone know any other records of this genus from NG?
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>
>HM Hanslin
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