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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	37 251801 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Melamphaes sp. A
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 Family: 37 251 Melamphaidae (Bigscales) - show full list Standard Name: [a bigscale] Organism Type: a bigscale Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic) Parent Codes: 37 251901     Melamphaes spp.

Taxon Notes:

Created for CSIRO's "Mesopelagic Fishes of the Southern Tasman Sea" Project. Recorded from the southern Tasman Sea outside the Australian EEZ (between Australia and NZ). Only known from a single specimen that is a member of the Melamphaes typhlops group of Ebeling (1962) that have a low number of gillrakers (less than 20). As of June 2022 this taxon is still inadequately resolved but has been made non-active due to it being outside Australian waters.

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