CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 114017 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Leptochilichthys microlepis Machida & Shiogaki, 1988
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
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Family:	37 114 Alepocephalidae (Slickheads) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Smallscale Smoothhead
Organism Type:	a slickhead
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes:	37 114910 Leptochilichthys spp.

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

Expected species depth range is from 1100 to 1158 m.

Taxon Notes:

A relative, L. pinguis, has been recorded close to the Australian EEZ, in the Arafura Sea.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0144ca48-dc03-4f70-b2e9-bfcc768b2eca Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	3007 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272922 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2021-01-21 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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