CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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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

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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:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
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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)
Images:


Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images


Credit: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
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