CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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CAAB Code:	37 287157 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Neomerinthe ignea Matsumoto, Muto & Motomura, 2023
Rank:	species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 287 Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfishes) - show full list
Standard Name:	[a scorpionfish]
Organism Type:	a scorpionfish
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.

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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2026-06-22.
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Expected species depth range is from 76 to 505 m.

Taxon Notes:	Added based on CSIRO & AMS specimens identified by Tatsuya Matsumoto from NE of Lady Elliott Island (22.18 S, 153.6 E), Qld and NE of Brunswick Heads (28 24 S, 153 50 E), NSW in 137-402 m depth. Elsewhere, widely distributed in the western Pacific Ocean, from Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Wallis and Futuna Islands in 76-505 m depth (Matsumoto et al 2023). Recorded from PNG as Plectrogenium megalepis by Fricke 2015.

Record source:	Matsumoto, T., Muto, N. & Motomura, H. , 2023. Neomerinthe ignea, a new species of scorpionfish (Teleostei: Scorpaenidae) from the western Pacific Ocean, with a review of records of N. erostris (Alcock 1896). , Ichthyological Research, Vol. 71, 2: 317-332.

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