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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 37 217002 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Gigantactis elsmani   Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: H.-C. Ho, National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: H.-C. Ho, National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium
Family: 37 217 Gigantactinidae (Whipnose Anglerfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Elsman's Whipnose
Organism Type: a whipnose anglerfish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Pelagic, Bathypelagic (1000-2000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes: 37 217901     Gigantactis spp.
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 3000 m.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:336c2880-449a-41a0-90a5-37472663a2d1
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 3381
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272559
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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