CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	37 341011 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Equulites elongatus   (Günther, 1874)
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: 37 341 Leiognathidae (Ponyfishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Elongate Ponyfish Common Names List: elongate pony fish Organism Type: a ponyfish Synonyms: Leiognathus elongatus [in most Australian references] Photoplagios elongatus [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): 341011, 37 341017, 341017

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 [389] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 3 to 130 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:c19de929-bcbc-4092-afaa-a57963404ef0 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 535 View at FoA ITIS 168806 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398517 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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