CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 126017 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Lestidiops mirabilis (Ege, 1933)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 126 Paralepididae (Barracudinas) - show full list
Standard Name:	[a barracudina]
Organism Type:	a barracudina
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Estuarine Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic) Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	37 126902 Lestidiops spp.

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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-11-01.
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Expected species depth range is from 15 to 200 m.

Taxon Notes:	Added based on AMS record listed by Ho & Huang (2022) collected by prawn trawl from east of Sydney (33°46′S, 151°49′E), NSW over 424–439 m depth. Mundy (2005) noted habitat as epi- and probably mesopelagic at ca. 15-200 m.

Record source and Scientific Name verified against:	Ho, H-C. & Huang, C-H, 2022. First adult record of the barracudina Lestidiops extremus (Ege, 1953), based on a specimen from the Philippines (Teleostei: Paralepididae), Zootaxa, Vol. 5195, 6: 579-584. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5195.6.6

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