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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 287070 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Parascorpaena moultoni   (Whitley, 1961)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes
Family: 37 287 Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfishes) - show full list
Standard Name: [a scorpionfish]
Organism Type: a scorpionfish
Synonyms: Scorpaena moultoni [Whitley, 1961; Paxton et al 1989]
Parascorpaena mcadamsi [Allen et al 2006]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 287932     Parascorpaena spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
287070
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2012-07-05.
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Expected species depth range is from 1 to 25 m.
Taxon Notes:This species was considered by some to be a junior synonym of Parascorpaena mcadamsi (see Poss, 1999), but Motomura et al (2011) confirmed its validity .

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1a877a1b-4f85-4d86-938d-bbe2e7796a3b
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 4837
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1013735
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-05-05
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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