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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Elasmobranchii (class)  »  Torpediniformes (order)  »  Narcinidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 028002 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Narcinops tasmaniensis   (Richardson, 1841)

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 28 Narcinidae (Numbfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Tasmanian Numbfish
Common Names List: Tasmanian numbfish
little numbfish
Organism Type: a numbfish
Synonyms: Narcine tasmaniensis [in most references prior to 2016]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 028902     Narcinops spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
028002
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 [473] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
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Expected species depth range is from 3 to 640 m.
Taxon Notes:Last et al 2016 (in Last & Yearsley, 2016 Rays of the world: Supplementary information) resurrected the genus Narcinops Whitley, 1940 for the Australian numbfishes based on morphological and molecular data.

Identifiers:
FoA 3280
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1460171
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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