''Chlamydogobius squamigenus'', the Edgbaston goby, is a critically endangered species of

goby Goby is a common name for many species of small to medium sized ray-finned fish, normally with large heads and tapered bodies, which are found in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. Traditionally most of the species called gobies have b ...

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 Edgbaston Reserve, formerly Edgbaston Station, is a nature reserve in central Queensland, Australia, north-east of Longreach. It lies in the upper catchment of Pelican Creek, which flows into the Thomson River and, ultimately, into Lake Eyre. ...

Central Queensland Central Queensland is an ambiguous geographical division of Queensland ( a state in Australia) that centres on the eastern coast, around the Tropic of Capricorn. Its major regional centre is Rockhampton. The region extends from the Capricorn Coas ...

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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 The red-finned blue-eye (''Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnis'') is a tiny, critically endangered species of fish in the family Pseudomugilidae. It is the only species in its genus. The species was first recorded in 1990. It is endemic to centr ...

, 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).
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Edgbaston goby ''Chlamydogobius squamigenus'', the Edgbaston goby, is a critically endangered species of goby endemic to the Edgbaston Reserve in Central Queensland, Australia where it occurs in small pools with clay bottoms and emergent tussock grasses. This ...

Freshwater fish of Queensland Endemic fauna of Australia Critically endangered fauna of Australia

Taxa named by Helen K. Larson Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Gobiiformes-stub