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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Scorpaeniformes (order)  »  Platycephalidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 296001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Platycephalus richardsoni   Castelnau, 1872
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Dorsal 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: 37 296 Platycephalidae (Flatheads) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Tiger Flathead Common Names List: tiger flathead Organism Type: a flathead Synonyms: Neoplatycephalus richardsoni Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 37 296913     Platycephalus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 296001

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 2008-11-19. Occurrence locations [1638] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 20 to 428 m.

Scientific Name Notes:	Neoplatycephalus is considered by Imamura (1996) to be a junior synonym of Platycephalus.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b6f9d4da-d1df-4621-bd5f-0f367d6699c0 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 3363 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:274663 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Lateral Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)