CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	37 296020 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Platycephalus westraliae   (Whitley, 1938)
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: 37 296 Platycephalidae (Flatheads) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Yellowtail Flathead Common Names List: yellow-tailed flathead Organism Type: a flathead Synonyms: Platycephalus endrachtensis (not Quoy & Gaimard, 1825): Taylor, 1964; Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola, 1984; Sainsbury et al 1985; Hutchins & Swainston, 1986; Allen & Swainston, 1988; Paxton et al 1989; Allen, 1997; Knapp, 1999, Hoese et al 2006. Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 296913     Platycephalus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 296020

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. Occurrence locations [71] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 50 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

Imamura (2008) examined type specimens of P. endrachtensis, P. arenarius & P. westraliae. He concluded that the first two are the same species (P. arenarius is a junior synonym of P. endrachtensis, so P. arenarius is now known as P. endrachtensis) and the latter was resurrected from the synonymy of P. bassensis. Most records referring to P. endrachtensis prior to late 2008 probably refer to P. westraliae. P. westraliae is known from Port Hacking (NSW) across northern Australia to Fremantle, WA and also from southern PNG and Java.

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0a95e295-3480-4ed0-bd9a-8ee65192370f Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 3761 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:712551 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-03-29 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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