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)  »  Caristiidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 343003 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Caristius macropus   (Bellotti, 1903)

Rank: Species
Attention: Non-current taxon. This record represents an obsolete code that currently has no corresponding active code in CAAB. See taxon notes for more details (if available).
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: 37 343 Caristiidae (Manefishes) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		Manefish
Organism Type: a manefish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic)
Pelagic, Bathypelagic (1000-2000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes: 37 343901     Caristius spp.
 Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
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Expected species depth range is from 619 to 1420 m.
Taxon Notes:No voucher specimen was associated with this record, so it is unclear as to which species it now refers to. It may refer to Caristius meriodionalis (37 343002), Caristius digitus (37 343004), Platyberyx andriashevi (37 343005) or a combination of Caristius and Platyberyx species. The true Caristius macropus is restricted to the North Pacific (see Stevenson & Kenaley, 2013).

Identifiers:
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126824
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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