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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Lophiiformes (order)  »  Ogcocephalidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 212006 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Malthopsis bulla   Ho & Last, 2021
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 37 212 Ogcocephalidae (Seabats) - show full list Standard Name: [a seabat] Organism Type: a seabat Synonyms: Malthopsis sp. 1 [Sainsbury et al 1985] Malthopsis sp. 2 [Sainsbury et al 1985] Malthopsis sp. W2 [of P. Last] (in CAAB) Malthopsis lutea [mis-identification, in part, on CAAB] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Parent Codes: 37 212906     Malthopsis spp. Previous Codes (if any): 212006, 37 212004, 212004

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-09-20. Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 140 to 1023 m.

Taxon Notes:

Updated from Malthopsis sp. W2 [of P. Last] after species described by Ho & Last (2021) from specimens collected off northern Australia between north of Port Hedland (18°16´S, 118°12´E), WA and NE of Cape Don, Arafura Sea (9°19´S, 132°49´E), NT in 140-1023m depth (only one record deeper than 400m).

Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Last, Peter, 2021. Review of the batfish genus Malthopsis from Australia (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species , Bulletin of Marine Science, Vol. 97: 165-218. doi:10.5343/bms.2020.0037