CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Aulopiformes (order)  »  Synodontidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 118034 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Synodus autumnus   Furuhashi & Motomura, 2025

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes
Family: 37 118 Synodontidae (Lizardfishes) - show full list
Standard Name: [a lizardfish]
Organism Type: a lizardfish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes: 37 118903     Synodus spp.
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2025-07-03.
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Expected species depth range is from 1 to 33 m.
Taxon Notes:Furuhashi & Motomura (2025) described this species from specimens collected in Australia [One Tree Island, Qld, North Solitary Island, NSW & Scott Reef, WA], Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Palau, Marshall Islands, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Tonga & Hawaiian Islands in 1-33 m depth.
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Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Furuhashi R. & Motomura H., 2025. Synodus autumnus, a new species of lizardfish (Aulopiformes, Synodontidae) from the Indo-Pacific region, and a reassessment of distributional records of Synodus rubromarmoratus., ZooKeys, Vol. 1243: 191-206. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1243.147259
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