CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 37 341005 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Equulites leuciscus   (Günther, 1860)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

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Family: 37 341 Leiognathidae (Ponyfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Whipfin Ponyfish
Common Names List: whipfin ponyfish
Organism Type: a ponyfish
Synonyms: Leiognathus leuciscus [in most Australian references]
Photoplagios leuciscus [in some refs between 2005 and 2008, incl. AFD online accessed 29/6/10]
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 341903     Equulites spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 341005
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 [984] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 5 to 50 m.
Scientific Name Notes:Sparks et al. (2008) erected the genus Photoplagios for a number of Leiognathid species. However, Kimura et al. (2008) noted that Equulites was a senior synonym of Photoplagios, so Equulites is the correct genus for this species.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:028b8234-3d5d-4220-951b-ef118ec1cac9
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 2216
Checked on: 2020-10-20
View at FoA
ITIS 168808

View at ITIS
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398520
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-03-29
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
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