
%0 Journal Article
%A Jerry, Dean R. 
%A Woodland, David J. 
%T Electrophoretic evidence for the presence of the undescribed &#8216;Bellinger&#8217; catfish (<emph type="2">Tandanus</emph> sp.) (Teleostei : Plotosidae) in four New South Wales mid-northern coastal rivers
%J Marine and Freshwater Research
%D 1997/06/19
%V 48
%N 3
%P 235-240
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MF95141
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MF95141 
%X Genetic data were collected from eight allopatric populations of the common freshwater catfish, Tandanus tandanus. Catfish sampled from the New South Wales (NSW) mid-northern coastal rivers of the Bellinger, Macleay, Hastings and Manning exhibited fixed allelic differences from T. tandanus from the type locality (Namoi River) at four enzymatic loci (GPI-1*, EST*, UMB-1* and UMB-2*), suggesting that, collectively, catfish from these four river systems constitute an undescribed species of Tandanus. Catfish from the northern coastal rivers of NSW (Tweed, Richmond and Clarence) displayed a complex pattern of population structure that was not fully resolved by the present study. More work is needed on the complex assemblage of populations of eel-tailed catfish in the eastern coastal drainages of Australia. 
