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)  »  Scorpaeniformes (order)  »  Scorpaenidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 287057 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Neomerinthe bucephalus   (Alcock, 1896)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

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Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Family: 37 287 Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfishes) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		Curvedspine Scorpionfish
Organism Type: a scorpionfish
Synonyms: Neomerinthe procurva Chen 1981
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 287926     Neomerinthe spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 287057, 37 287507, 287507
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2026-06-17.
Occurrence locations [6] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 139 to 211 m.
Taxon Notes:In a revision of the Neomerinthe bucephalus species group, Matsumoto & Motomura (2024) synonymised Neomerinthe procurva with Neomerinthe bucephalus. In Australia, N. bucephalus is recorded from NW of the Dampier Archipelago (19°24′ S, 116°08' E) north to off Cape Leveque (c. 14 58 S, 121 40 E), WA in 139-211 m depth. Elsehwere, the species is widely distributed in the Indo-West Pacific region, including southern India, the Andaman Sea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and southern Indonesia in depths of c. 60-500 m.

Identifiers:
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:be45e9c7-4eef-435d-8c2b-04a232c451af
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2026-06-17
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Fishes of Australia 3337
View at Fishes of Australia
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276265
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2026-06-17
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Matsumoto, T. & Motomura, H. , 2023. Taxonomic review of the Neomerinthe bucephalus species group (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae), with description of a new species from Vanuatu. , Ichthyological Research , Vol. 71, 1: 13-39.
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