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Note on the conservation status of the giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides (Teleostei: Eleotridae)

R.M. McDowall*

The giant bully has been reported over a wider range, increasingly often, and in higher abundance in recent years compared with the 1960s and 1970s. These changes correlate with a change in the frequency with which various sampling methods have been used and the variety of habitats fished. This corroborates assumptions that few records and low abundance in the earlier years did not accurately reflect the species' distribution and abundance, but were a result of problems encountered in sampling brackish, estuarine habitats. Records now show the species to be very widespread and at least locally abundant at low elevations and close to the sea.

Keywords: giant bully, Gobiomorphus gobioides, Eleotridae, conservation status, abundance

(c) Journal of The Royal Society of New Zealand,

Volume 27, Number 1, March 1997, pp 163-172

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