CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

CAAB Code
37 270001 Show as JSON
Scientific Name & Authority
Lophotus guntheri   Johnston, 1883
Rank
Species
CAAB category
37 - Pisces Fishes
Image
Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)
Image by:
CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Licence:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Rights:
CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection
Family
37 270 Lophotidae (Crestfishes) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300)
Crested Bandfish
Common Names List
crested bandfish
Organism Type
a crestfish
Synonyms
Lophotus lacepede (in CAAB; possibly confined to the Atlantic Ocean) Lophotus capellei (Australian Faunal Directory)
Taxon lists
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat
Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes
37 270902     Lophotus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
270001
Taxon Notes
From Australian Faunal Directory, July 2018: There is uncertainty over the correct name and number of number of species of Lophotus found in Australia. The species has been treated as Lophotus lacepede, L. capellei or L. guntheri. We follow Craig et al. (2004) in use of the name L. guntheri for the south Pacific species. Because there may be two species in Australia, further work is needed on the genus.
Identifiers
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b3d96e38-db0c-4ff7-922f-deebd8e80e8e
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126523
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Distribution Map

Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions)
Updated on 2009-01-06
Get expert distribution shapefile
Distribution Data
Expected species depth range is from 0 to 90 m.