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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	37 255005 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Hoplostethus gigas   McCulloch, 1914
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: 37 255 Trachichthyidae (Roughies) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Giant Sawbelly Common Names List: giant sawbelly giant roughy Organism Type: a roughy Synonyms: Hoplostethus latus (May & Maxwell, 1986: 219, fig) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Parent Codes: 37 255903     Hoplostethus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 255005

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 2014-08-11. Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 188 to 522 m.

Taxon Notes:	This taxon (37 255005) was previously cited as H. latus in CSIRO Trawl Fish Guide (May & Maxwll, 1986), but is now considered to be H. gigas. H. latus is retained as a separate CAAB species, 37 255002.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b9e906b4-2b43-42fa-9cbb-89b2f1be7067 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 1393 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:272229 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-01-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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