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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Perciformes (order) » Leiognathidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 37 341012 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Photolateralis moretoniensis (Ogilby, 1912) |
| CAAB category: | 37 - Pisces Fishes |
Distribution map:
 Expected distribution shown as red or purple polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Occurrence locations [1003] shown as red or dark brown circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile |
Photographic Index of Australian Fishes Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) @CSIRO 2021 | ||
| Family: | Leiognathidae (Ponyfishes) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | Zigzag Ponyfish | |
| Common Names List: | Zigzag Ponyfish zig-zag ponyfish | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Leiognathus moretoniensis [in most Australian references to 2005] Photoplagios moretoniensis [in some refs between 2005 and 2008, incl. AFD online accessed 29/6/10] Equulites moretoniensis [Munro 1961; CAAB] | |
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 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | |
| Habitat: |
Coastal (0-50m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) | |
| Parent Codes: |
37 341910
Photolateralis spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a ponyfish |
| Scientific Name Notes: | Sparks et al. (2008) erected the genus Photoplagios for a number of Leiognathid species but Kimura et al. (2008) noted that Equulites was a senior synonym of Photoplagios. Sparks & Chakrabarty (2015) erected the genus Photolateralis for some species previously placed in Equulites. | ||||
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