CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 335001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus, 1766)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 335 Rachycentridae (Black Kingfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Cobia
Common Names List:	black kingfish cobia
Organism Type:	a black kingfish
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Coastal (0-40m) Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m) Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes:	37 335901 Rachycentron spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	335001

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
Occurrence locations [277] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile

Expected species depth range is from 0 to 200 m.

Common/Standard Name Notes:

Previous marketing name: Black Kingfish.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:88363a52-63b9-4b2a-81e0-b670cbd4edfc Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	4421 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA
ITIS	168566 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127006 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-08-09 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Credit: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike	Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) 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)

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