CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Clupeiformes (order) » Clupeidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 085004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Sprattus novaehollandiae (Valenciennes, 1847)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
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Family:	37 85 Clupeidae (Herrings) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Australian Sprat
Common Names List:	Australian sprat
Organism Type:	a herring
Synonyms:	Sprattus bassensis
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m)
Parent Codes:	37 085921 Sprattus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	085004

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 [17] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile

Expected species depth range is from 0 to 200 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

This taxon was formerly listed as Sprattus bassensis in CSIRO's Trawl Fishes Guide (May & Maxwell, 1986)

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:2db63b0b-9281-49cb-9527-b447a4135d57 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	2070 View at FoA
ITIS	551218 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272283 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-01-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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