CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 37 126018 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Uncisudis advena   (Rofen, 1963)

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: Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes: 37 126910     Uncisudis spp.
 Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2026-06-15.
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Expected species depth range is from 513 to 997 m.
Taxon Notes:In Australia, only confirmed from a CSIRO specimen collected from north of Nickol Bay (18°43’S, 116°46’E), WA in a scampi trawl over bottom depth of 513 m (Ho & Pogonoski 2025). Described from the Western Atlantic; also present in the Indian & Pacific Oceans.
Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Ho, H.-C. & Pogonoski, J.J. , 2025. First adult record of Uncisudis advena (Rofen, 1963) from northwestern Australia (Family Paralepididae)., Vol. 5373, 3: 424-430. doi:10.11646%2Fzootaxa.5673.3.6
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