CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 349005 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Gerres subfasciatus Cuvier, 1830
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 349 Gerreidae (Silverbiddies) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Common Silverbiddy
Common Names List:	silver biddy
Organism Type:	a silverbiddy
Synonyms:	Gerres ovatus [in Castelnau, 1873:139; Castelnau, 1879:354; Klunzinger, 1879:354; Ogilby, 1893:147; Larson & Williams, 1997:360] Xystaema ovatum [in Waite, 1899:83] Xystaema ovata [in Stead, 1906:117]
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Estuarine Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes:	37 349901 Gerres spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	349005, 37 349015, 349015

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2008-11-19.
Occurrence locations [113] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile

Expected species depth range is from 0 to 40 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

Gerres ovatus Günther, 1859 is a junior synonym of Gerres subfasciatus Cuvier, 1830 (see Iwatsuki et al 2006)

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:04c593e5-86aa-41ea-ba76-38d9576ca6ae Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	2435 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:276969 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)	Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Credit: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike

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