CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Osmeriformes (order) » Alepocephalidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 114014 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Alepocephalus australis Barnard, 1923
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
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Family:	37 114 Alepocephalidae (Slickheads) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Smallscale Slickhead
Common Names List:	big scale
Organism Type:	a slickhead
Synonyms:	Alepocephalus sp. 2 Alepocephalus sp. B
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes:	37 114901 Alepocephalus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	114014

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

Expected species depth range is from 690 to 1725 m.

Taxon Notes:

Not all specimens coded here were correctly identified and some records may refer to A. anitpodianus? or to other species.

Scientific Name Notes:

Species changed from sp. 2 [big scale, in ISR Munro collection] to australis based on identifications by Sazonov.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:85beb4fd-e7cb-451b-8bf2-c177ec90dc7a Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	4558 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217603 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2021-01-20 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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