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)  »  Gigantactinidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 217005 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Gigantactis vanhoeffeni   Brauer, 1902

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: 37 217 Gigantactinidae (Whipnose Anglerfishes) - show full list
Standard Name: [a whipnose anglerfish]
Organism Type: a whipnose anglerfish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic)
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) .
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Expected species depth range is from 825 to 1100 m.
Taxon Notes:Added based on CSIRO specimen from Tasmania recorded by Pietsch (2009).

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1b0d3941-c7a6-48ab-8c4a-75d2a1bb2840
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 2714
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126542
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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