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 296042 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cymbacephalus parilis   (McCulloch, 1914)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO Family: 37 296 Platycephalidae (Flatheads) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Northern Rock Flathead Organism Type: a flathead Synonyms: Cymbacephalus staigeri [in most references prior to 2021] Suggrundus staigeri Insidiator parilis Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 296907     Cymbacephalus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 296042

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. Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 46 m.

Taxon Notes:

In the absence of the existence of type specimens of Platycephalus staigeri Castelnau 1875, Imamura (2021) compared the description with specimens of Cymbacephalus nematophthalmus (Günther 1860) and concluded that the former was conspecific with the latter, with the latter name having priority. Accordingly, Cymbacephalus parilis (McCulloch 1914), having been treated as a junior synonym of C. staigeri, becomes the valid name of the species, because no species having priority over C. parilis exist.

Identifiers:

WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:314242 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-08-15 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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