Pseudomugil gertrudae – Spotted Blue | 水產百科網

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Pseudomugil: from the Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudes), meaning ‘false, lying, untrue’, used here as a prefix, and the generic name Mugil.

gertrudae: named for the wife of Dr. Hugo Merton, a German naturalist who visited the Aru Islands, eastern Indonesia, in 1907 and 1908.

Order: Atheriniformes Family: Pseudomugilidae[1][2]

Described from ‘Rivulet in sago forest at Ngaiguli, Terangan, Aru Island, Aru Islands, Maluku, Indonesia’, corresponding to the island now normally referred to as ‘Trangan’ in the Aru Islands group, eastern Indonesia.

The islands are located in the Arafura Sea, with western New Guinea to the north and the Arnhem Land Region of Australia’s Northern Territory to the south, and though they lie within Maluku province of eastern Indonesia, are part of the Aust...