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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Squatiniformes (order)  »  Squatinidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 024005 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Squatina pseudocellata   Last & White, 2008

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)

Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Family: 37 24 Squatinidae (Angelsharks) - show full list
Standard Name: Western Angelshark
Common Names List: western angel shark
angel shark
western angelshark
Organism Type: an angel shark
Synonyms: Squatina sp. B [Last & Stevens, 1994]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 024900     Squatina spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
024005
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19.
Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
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Expected species depth range is from 150 to 310 m.
Common/Standard Name Notes: "angel shark" is the marketing name for this species. Provisional common name (species not in standard names list)

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3741c644-6b9a-4994-a09c-8993f5874a8c
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 2605
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398279
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-01-21
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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