CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Lampriformes (order)  »  Lophotidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 270001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Lophotus guntheri   Johnston, 1883
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes 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 (AS5300): 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

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 0 to 90 m.

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:

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 WoRMS 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)