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)  »  Torpediniformes (order)  »  Narcinidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 028007 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Narcinops ornatus   (Carvalho, 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 28 Narcinidae (Numbfishes) - show full list
Standard Name: Ornate Numbfish
Common Names List: ornate numbfish
Organism Type: a numbfish
Synonyms: Narcine sp. A [in Last & Stevens, 1994]
Narcine sp. [Allen 1997]
Narcine ornata
Narcinops ornata
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 028902     Narcinops spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 028007
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 [15] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 50 to 130 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. The correct species name is ornatus as ornata is an adjective and words ending in ops are masculine as defined in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (D. Hoese, pers. comm. 14 Jan 2026).
Common/Standard Name Notes: provisional common name (species not in standard names list)

Identifiers:
FoA 2643
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398281
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2026-01-14
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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