cleaveri, Galaxias Scott [E. O. G.] 1934:41, Pl. 6 [Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania [for 1933]; ref. 16459] West Ulverstone, northwestern Tasmania, Australia. Holotype (unique): QVM [old no. HT.938] (missing in 1974 and 2003). Type catalog: Green 1974:2 [ref. 19267]. See Waters & White 1997:39 [ref. 25527]. •Valid as Galaxias cleaveri Scott 1934 -- (McDowall & Frankenberg 1981:519 [ref. 5500], Cadwallader & Backhouse 1983:74 [ref. 25473], Paxton et al. 1989:176 [ref. 12442], Gomon et al. 1994:236 [ref. 22532], McDowall & Fulton in McDowall 1996:64 [ref. 22909], Chilcott & Humphries 1996:145 [ref. 25528], Allen et al. 2002:97 [ref. 25930]). •Valid as Neochanna cleaveri (Scott 1934) -- (McDowall 1997:129 [ref. 23241], Ling & Gleeson 2001:386 [ref. 25495], McDowall 2004:316 [ref. 27947], Hammer & Walker 2004:88, 90 [ref. 28129], Waters & McDowall 2005:419 [ref. 28417], Paxton et al. 2006:409 [ref. 28995], Raadik 2008:222 [ref. 30624], Hammer et al. 2012:63 [ref. 32389], Raadik 2014:160 [ref. 33606], Adams et al. 2023:[C] [ref. 40384]). Current status: Valid as Neochanna cleaveri (Scott 1934). Galaxiidae: Galaxiinae. Distribution: Australia: southeastern South Australia; southern Victoria; Tasmania. Habitat: freshwater, brackish, marine.