CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	37 020050 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Centrophorus westraliensis   White, Ebert & Compagno, 2008
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. Family: 37 20 Centrophoridae (Gulper Sharks) - show full list Standard Name: Western Gulper Shark Common Names List: Organism Type: a gulper shark Synonyms: Centrophorus harrissoni [in Last & Stevens, 1994: 52,56,57; Western Australian population] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Parent Codes: 37 020908     Centrophorus spp.

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 2009-01-06. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 616 to 750 m.

Scientific Name Notes:	Last & Stevens (1994) reported the distribution of Centrophorus harrissoni as occurring off both the east and west coasts of Australia. White et al 2008 described the WA population as a new species, Centrophorus westraliensis, and noted that C. harrissoni was restricted to the east coast of Australia and New Zealand.
Common/Standard Name Notes:	provisional common name (species not in standard names list)
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8a259fb4-1841-48d4-945c-e887cbc1fa34 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398265 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)