CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	37 028006     Taxa superceded by 37 028003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Torpedo tokionis   (Tanaka, 1908)
Rank:	Species
Attention: Non-current taxon. This record represents an old code which has been superseded by a new active CAAB code. See taxon notes for more details (if available).

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 28 Torpedinidae (Torpedo Rays) - show full list Standard Name: Short-tail Torpedo Ray Common Names List: longtail torpedo ray Organism Type: a torpedo ray Synonyms: Torpedo sp. A [in Last & Stevens, 1994] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Previous Codes (if any): 028006

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 [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 410 to 735 m.

Taxon Notes:	Although Last & Stevens (2009), provisionally identified Australian specimens as Torpedo tokionis (a North Pacific species), a recent re-assessment suggests that Australian specimens are conspecific with the widespread Tetronarce nobiliana, 37028003 (P. Last, pers. comm. 17 Feb 2017).
Common/Standard Name Notes:	provisional common name (species not in standard names list)
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:271690 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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