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)  »  Lophiiformes (order)  »  Ogcocephalidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 212016 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Halicmetus reticulatus   Smith & Radcliffe, 1912

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)

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Family: 37 212 Ogcocephalidae (Seabats) - show full list
Standard Name: [a seabat]
Organism Type: a seabat
Synonyms: Halicmetus sp A [of P. Last] (in CAAB)
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 212903     Halicmetus spp.
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-06-02.
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Expected species depth range is from 266 to 451 m.
Taxon Notes:Updated from Halicmetus sp A [of P. Last] to H. reticulatus after Ho & Last 2018 reidentified the CAAB voucher for this species (CSIRO H 4070-48). In Australia, only known from one specimen collected off Port Hedland (18 12 S, 118 14 E), WA in 266-269m (Ho & Last, 2018). Elsewhere, known from Philippines, Taiwan, Japan & New Caledonia (Catalog of Fishes, 2022). The CAAB name of Halicmetus sp A also partly referred to another newly described species, Halicmetus westraliensis, coded as 37 212048.
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Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)


Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Record source: HO, HSUAN-CHING, LAST, PETER R., 2018. Review of the batfish genus Halicmetus Alcock, 1891 from Australian waters, with descriptions of two new species (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), Zootaxa, Vol. 4508: 179. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.2.2
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