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)  »  Ephippidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 362007 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Platax orbicularis   (Forsskål, 1775)

Rank: Species
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: 37 362 Ephippidae (Batfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Round Batfish
Common Names List: narrow-banded batfish ?
Organism Type: a batfish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes: 37 362902     Platax spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
362007
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-11-20.
Occurrence locations [138] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 10 to 60 m.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4f58fe5d-3d14-4152-8de7-5b6f14584db4
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 2208
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218711
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-05-10
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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