Osteoglossidae

LARSON, HELEN K., WILLIAMS, REX S. & HAMMER, MICHAEL P., 2013, <strong> An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia </ strong>, Zootaxa 3696 (1), pp. 1-293 : 23

Osteoglossidae

(bonytongues)

Scleropages jardinii ( Saville-Kent, 1892)

Northern Saratoga

Osteoglossum jardinii Saville-Kent, 1892: 105 (Batavia [= Wenlock] River, Cape York).

Scleropages leichardti jardini — Whitley 1941a: 265 ("depicted in aboriginal drawings in the NT").

Scleropages leichardti (misidentification)— Taylor 1964: 73 (questionably in Red Lily Lagoon).

Scleropages jardini —Lake 1971: 17 ("Jardine, Mitchell, Gilbert, Gregory, Roper and Manton " rivers); Midgley 1973: 2, 7–10 (Red Lily Lagoon, Cannon Hill; Mudginbarry Station; Nourlangie Creek; Saw Cut Creek; Jim Jim Falls; Deaf Adder Creek); Pollard 1974: 13–14 (Alligator Rivers); Midgley 1979: Appendix B (Mainoru River); Midgley 1982: Appendix B (Calvert River); Midgley 1983: Appendix B (Wonmurri Hole, Phelp River; Liverpool River; Goomadeer River); Merrick and Schmida 1984: 75 (headwaters of the Adelaide River; Alligator Rivers system); Midgley 1984: appendix B (Mt Ringwood lagoon; Adelaide River); Larson 1987: 147 (Kakadu Stages 1 and 2); Paxton et al. 1989: 103 (in NT "only from following systems: East Alligator, Goyder, Roper”); Larson 1998: 31 (Andranangoo Creek, Melville Island); Wilson and Brooks 2004: 12 (Mainoru River; Goyder River; Cato River; Habgood River); Dally and Larson 2008: 15 (Roper River, Elsey/Moroak Stations).

Scleropages jardinii — Allen et al. 2002: 57 (Adelaide River; Melville Island; Roper River; Goyder River; Alligator River); Hoese et al. 2006: 218 (NT; N coastal, N Gulf; East Alligator, Goyder and Roper systems).

Arnhem Bay (AMS material).