CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 215003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Himantolophus mauli Bertelsen & Krefft, 1988
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
	Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO.
Family:	37 215 Himantolophidae (Footballfishes) - show full list
Standard Name:	[a footballfish]
Organism Type:	a footballfish
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes:	37 215901 Himantolophus spp.

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) .
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Expected species depth range is from 940 to 1000 m.

Taxon Notes:

Added based on CSIRO record from Tasmania identified by Kenaley & Ho in 2005 (ID also confirmed from image by T. Pietsch June 2011).

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c27d38e9-eba7-45bb-bad3-27a033ca0427 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	4801 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126546 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report