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)  »  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

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Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Family: 37 251 Melamphaidae (Bigscales) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		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:
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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 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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