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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Stomiiformes (order)  »  Melanostomiidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 109026 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Melanostomias tentaculatus   (Regan & Trewavas, 1930)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: C.T. Regan & E. Trewavas, 1930 - The fishes of the families Stomiatidae and Malacosteidae
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: C.T. Regan & E. Trewavas, 1930 - The fishes of the families Stomiatidae and Malacosteidae
Family: 37 109 Melanostomiidae (Scaleless Dragonfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Tentacle Dragonfish
Organism Type: a scaleless dragonfish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes: 37 109905     Melanostomias spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
109026
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
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Expected species depth range is from 500 to 2000 m.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ea829d1a-15fe-434e-bb86-0f1fccf5a095
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 4432
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127364
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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