CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Squaliformes (order)  »  Squalidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 020006 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Squalus megalops   (Macleay, 1881)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Family: 37 20 Squalidae (Dogfishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Spikey Dogfish Common Names List: piked spurdog cosmopolitan spurdog spikey dogfish greeneye dogfish piked dogfish Organism Type: a dogfish Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Parent Codes: 37 020901     Squalus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 020006

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19. Occurrence locations [2083] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 37 to 580 m.

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:28dde6f9-cece-4251-bbaa-e6cccf40062f Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 2017 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA ITIS 160628 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:105925 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-06-16 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

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) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)