New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts
First New Zealand record of the Australian bridled goby, Arenigobius
bifrenatus (Pisces: Gobiidae)
TREVOR J. WILLIS
JUSTINE E. H. SAUNDERS
DANIELLE L. BLACKWOOD*
JEFFREY E. ARCHER*
Leigh Marine Laboratory
University of Auckland
P. O. Box 349
Warkworth, New Zealand
email: t.willis@auckland.ac.nz
*Present address: Blue Zoo Beijing Aquarium, Workers Stadium (South
Gate), Beijing 100027, China.
Abstract Arenigobius bifrenatus (Kner 1865) is a
burrowing coastal and estuarine goby from temperate areas of Australia. One
specimen was captured from the Whangateau Harbour, north-eastern New Zealand,
on 1 April 1998, constituting the first record of this species from New
Zealand. Further intensive beach seining at Pollen Island, within the Waitemata
Harbour (Auckland), yielded two further specimens which were females in
breeding condition. We suggest that the species is an adventive, and its
presence in northern New Zealand waters is the result of accidental transport
in shipping ballast water.
Keywords Arenigobius bifrenatus; ballast water;
estuary; Gobiidae; new New Zealand record
M98059
Received 19 August 1998; accepted 21 January 1999
Short communication
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