CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	37 028008 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Narcinops nelsoni   (Carvalho, 2008)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Family: 37 28 Narcinidae (Numbfishes) - show full list Standard Name: Eastern Numbfish Common Names List: eastern numbfish Organism Type: a numbfish Synonyms: Narcine sp. C [in Last & Stevens, 1994] Narcine nelsoni Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Parent Codes: 37 028902     Narcinops spp. Previous Codes (if any): 028008

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. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 140 to 540 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.
Common/Standard Name Notes:	provisional common name (species not in standard names list)
Identifiers:	FoA 2644 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398280 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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