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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	37 350013 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Plectorhinchus unicolor   (Macleay, 1883)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 37 350 Haemulidae (Grunter Breams) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Sombre Sweetlips Common Names List: minstrel sweetlips sweetlip bream Organism Type: a grunter bream Synonyms: Plectorhinchus schotaf (Forsskål, 1775) [Randall et al 1990: 195; Allen et al 2006: 1223; Johnson 2010: 320, 340] Plectorhinchus sp [Francis 1993:161] Plectorhinchus chubbi [CAAB; Allen et al 2006 - Zool. Cat. Aust] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 37 350903     Plectorhinchus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 350013, 37 350025

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 2008-11-19. Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 36 m.

Scientific Name Notes:

Johnson & Wilmer (2015) noted distribution as southern Japan, Taiwan, Micronesia (Guam), West Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea and northern Australia. In Australia known from Rottnest Island north to Dampier Archipelago (WA) and on east coast from Lizard Island (Qld) south to Tweed River (NSW), including Lord Howe Island in depths of 1–10 m. Plectorhinchus schotaf appears to be restricted to the region from southeast Africa to the Arabian Sea, including the Red Sea and Persian Gulf; Plectorhinchus chubbi has only been confirmed from the Western Indian Ocean (Johnson & Wilmer 2015).

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e325447f-4254-4995-85a0-06bcbd276a8c Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 5205 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273496 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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