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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Stephanoberyciformes (order)  »  Melamphaidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 251002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Melamphaes longivelis   Parr, 1933
Rank:	Species
Attention: Non-current taxon. This record represents an obsolete code that currently has no corresponding active code in CAAB. See taxon notes for more details (if available).

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: 37 251 Melamphaidae (Bigscales) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Eyebrow Bigscale Organism Type: a bigscale Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic) Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 37 251901     Melamphaes spp. Previous Codes (if any): 251002

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 500 to 2000 m.

Taxon Notes:

Kotlyar (2015, two separate papers) noted that Melamphaes longivelis was restricted to the Atlantic Ocean and suggested that Australian specimens referred to as M. longivelis by Paxton et al 1989 (Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Pisces) were possibly the same as a newly described species Melamphaes contradictorius Kotlyar, 2015 (coded as 37 251013). However, Kotlyar did not examine any specimens in Australian collections and several Melamphaes species are known to occur in the Tasman Sea, suggesting that specimens designated as Melamphaes longivelis in Australia could now comprise several different species. Given the difficulties with the taxonomy of this group, this code has been made non-active, pending better resolution of specimen identification in Australian collections.

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