CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Actinopterygii (class) » Perciformes (order) » Pseudochromidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 313017 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Oxycercichthys veliferus (Lubbock, 1980)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
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Family:	37 313 Pseudochromidae (Dottybacks) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Longtail Dottyback
Common Names List:	sailfin dottyback
Organism Type:	a dottyback
Synonyms:	Ogilbyina velifera
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes:	37 313909 Oxycercichthys spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	313017

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
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Expected species depth range is from 15 to 50 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

See Gill (2003) re generic placement.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f9a308b4-13e2-44cd-a582-a7bfc3ad542c Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	1881 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:475068 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-01-18 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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