CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Elasmobranchii (class) » Lamniformes (order) » Pseudocarchariidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 009003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pseudocarcharias kamoharai (Matsubara, 1936)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 9 Pseudocarchariidae (Crocodile Sharks) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Crocodile Shark
Common Names List:	crocodile shark
Organism Type:	a crocodile shark
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes:	37 009903 Pseudocarcharias spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	009003, 37 008004, 008004

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19.
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 590 m.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ec877993-a3c8-488c-b113-2fee2815ecc2 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	3001 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA
ITIS	159897 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217632 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Credit: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO, Image enhancement funded by CSIRO/FRDC Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike	Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Indonesian specimen, embryo Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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