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described
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from “several specimens not much over an inch long” (p. 44) from the Norman River.
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simply listed the species in his catalogue of Australian fishes.
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regarded it as a valid species of
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, but did not mention whether he had seen the
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. Whitley (1935) noted that there were two small
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in the Macleay Museum, the larger of which he designated
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. He illustrated the
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as well as the dorsal and anal fins of the
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(Whitley 1935:fig. 6), and considered them to be juveniles of
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(Castelnau)
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.
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considered
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<emphasis id="B92376324749D449FEA4FA52FE24B3A1" box="[278,414,1477,1502]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="568">P. elongatus</emphasis>
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to be a valid species of
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<emphasis id="B92376324749D449FD15FA51FCABB3A1" box="[679,785,1477,1502]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="568">Ambassis</emphasis>
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, but noted (p. 163): “Apparently the
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specimen is lost. It is not among the collections of AMS or MNHN.”
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Allen
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(2006)
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also regarded
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as a valid species of
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<emphasis id="B92376324749D449FF05F999FE9BB059" box="[183,289,1549,1574]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="568">Ambassis</emphasis>
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, and listed MAMU as the repository for the
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and
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, but did not examine either specimen.
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There are two specimens in the Macleay Museum (MAMU F.431), which agree well with Whitleys illustrations of the lectotype and paralectotype. The old external label for the specimens says “
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<emphasis id="B92376324749D449FB03F9EEFA26B0EE" box="[1201,1436,1658,1681]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="568">PSEUDOAMBASSIS</emphasis>
ELONGATUS
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, Casteln. NORMAN RIVER”; an internal card in the jar repeats the same information. The index card for the specimens says “
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<emphasis id="B92376324749D449FE4AF955FC90B0A5" box="[504,810,1729,1754]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="568">Pseudoambassis elongatus</emphasis>
, Cast.
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[…] 2 sp. 1″ Norman River”. As with the
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<emphasis id="B92376324749D449FA35F956FF46B081" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="568">P. macleayi</emphasis>
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types, Jenny Andersons entry in the catalogue of the Macleay Museum fish collection mistakenly lists the specimens only as topotypes. They too were not listed in
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type catalogue, and accordingly were excluded from the 1970 transfer of fish types to the AMS.
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The specimens are in very poor condition. The larger of the two (the
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) is in particularly poor condition, with the head bent to the left and partially disarticulated from the body (
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). The
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measures approximately
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SL, and the
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SL. Details discernible from the specimens are as follows: single supraorbital spine; nasal spine absent; two transverse scale rows on cheek; dorsal and anal fins each with seven segmented rays; lateral line incomplete; predorsal scales nine; vertical scale rows from upper edge of gill opening to caudal-fin base 25; horizontal scale rows from anal-fin origin to dorsal-fin base 11. This combination of characters is unique among Australian ambassids (
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), and we regard the two MAMU specimens in F431 as the
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and paraalectotype of
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<emphasis id="B9237632474ED44EFCCCFE90FBE6B762" box="[894,1116,260,285]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="569">Ambassis elongatus</emphasis>
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.
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