''Chlamydogobius squamigenus'', the Edgbaston goby, is a
critically endangered species of
goby endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to the
Edgbaston Reserve in
Central Queensland,
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
where it occurs in small pools with clay bottoms and emergent tussock grasses. This species can reach a length of
SL. The
red-finned blue-eye, 11 snail species, a small crustacean, a
flatworm
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegment ...
, a spider and a dragonfly are restricted to the same springs and also threatened.
[Bush Heritage (27 May 2016). ]
Edgbaston.
' Retrieved 18 February 2017.
References
Edgbaston goby
Freshwater fish of Queensland
Endemic fauna of Australia
Critically endangered fauna of Australia
Edgbaston goby
Taxa named by Helen K. Larson
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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