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 341012 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Photolateralis moretoniensis   (Ogilby, 1912)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Image by: Western Australian Museum Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Rights: Western Australian Museum Family: 37 341 Leiognathidae (Ponyfishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Zigzag Ponyfish Common Names List: zig-zag ponyfish Organism Type: a ponyfish Synonyms: Leiognathus moretoniensis [in most Australian references to 2005] Photoplagios moretoniensis [in some refs between 2005 and 2008, incl. AFD online accessed 29/6/10] Equulites moretoniensis [Munro 1961; CAAB] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 341910     Photolateralis spp. Previous Codes (if any): 341012

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 [1792] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 10 to 105 m.

Scientific Name Notes:	Sparks et al. (2008) erected the genus Photoplagios for a number of Leiognathid species but Kimura et al. (2008) noted that Equulites was a senior synonym of Photoplagios. Sparks & Chakrabarty (2015) erected the genus Photolateralis for some species previously placed in Equulites.
Identifiers:	ITIS 168810 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:398521 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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Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Credit: Western Australian Museum Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike