CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

CAAB Code
37 341012 Show as JSON
Scientific Name & Authority
Photolateralis moretoniensis   (Ogilby, 1912)
Rank
Species
CAAB category
37 - Pisces Fishes
Image
Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images
Image by:
Western Australian Museum
Licence:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
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Western Australian Museum
Family
37 341 Leiognathidae (Ponyfishes) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300)
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
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 (USA) 168810
View at ITIS
World Register of Marine Species 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)
Distribution Map

Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions)
Updated on 2009-01-06
Get expert distribution shapefile
Occurrence locations [1792] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Distribution Data
Expected species depth range is from 10 to 105 m.