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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 37 353001 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Chrysophrys auratus   (Forster, 1801)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

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Family: 37 353 Sparidae (Breams) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Snapper
Common Names List: snapper
Organism Type: a bream
Synonyms: Sparus aurata
Pagrus auratus
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 353903     Chrysophrys spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
353001
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 [697] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 200 m.
Taxon Notes:The Fish Names Committee recommended that the scientific name for Snapper be changed from Pagrus auratus to Chrysophrys auratus in the Australian Fish Names Standard (Meeting dated 25 Aug 2016, Resolution 30.49)
Scientific Name Notes:According to AFD online (accessed 24 Apr 2015), the generic placement of this species has been in dispute for many years. It was placed in genus Chrysophrys until Paulin (1990) regarded the genus as a synonym of the Atlantic genus Pagrus. Gomon (1994, 2008) continued to use Chrysophrys, while specialists on the group followed Paulin (Carpenter 2001). Molecular work (Day 2002; Orrelll et al. 2002; Orrell & Carpenter 2004; Chiba et al. 2009) has questioned the monophyly of the subfamilies and genera within the family, including Pagrus. Mitochondrial DNA suggested more similarity between Pagrus auratus and Evynnis from Japan and Argyrops. However, many of these studies have not agreed with morphological classifications based on dentition. Leis et al. provided evidence for recognising Chrysophrys as distinct from Pagrus. Dr. Yukio Iwatsuki of Miyazaki University in Japan is soon to publish information confirming that the two genera should be separate (Leis et al. 2014), with Pagrus confined to the Atlantic Ocean.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c88d6c8a-4ba1-48e7-b789-aa7c64008021
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 678
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367239
Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2022-06-16
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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