Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 37 212036 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Malthopsis provocator Whitley, 1961
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 37 - Pisces Fishes
- Image
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Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images- Image by:
- K. Graham, NSW Fisheries
- Licence:
- Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
- Rights:
- K. Graham, NSW Fisheries
- Family
- 37 212 Ogcocephalidae (Seabats) - show full list
- Standard Name
- [a seabat]
- Organism Type
- a seabat
- Synonyms
- Malthopsis kobayashi (misidentification) Malthopsis lutea (Paxton et al 1989 - misidentification due to exclusion of subspecies at that time)
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
-
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
- Parent Codes
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37 212906
Malthopsis spp.
- Distribution Map
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View detailed map
Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions)
Updated on 2022-07-01 - Distribution Data
- Expected species depth range is from 220 to 475 m.
- Record source
- 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