CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Aulopiformes (order) » Bathysauroididae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 120007 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Bathysauroides gigas (Kamohara, 1952)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
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Family:	37 120 Bathysauroididae (Flathead Lizardfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Pale Deepsea Lizardfish
Organism Type:	a flathead lizardfish
Synonyms:	Bathysauropsis gigas
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes:	37 120901 Bathysauroides spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	120007, 37 120504, 120504

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

Expected species depth range is from 260 to 480 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

See Baldwin and Johnson (1996) re generic placement. Considered by Sato & Nakabo (2002) to belong to a new family, Bathysauropsidae.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:330e5330-f1de-4d67-8b9f-11d509ce998c Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	4422 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279875 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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