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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	37 382007 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Sphyraena obtusata   Cuvier, 1829
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: 37 382 Sphyraenidae (Pikes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Yellowtail Barracuda Organism Type: a pike Synonyms: Sphyraena flavicauda (in most references prior to Doiuchi & Nakabo, 2005). Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m) Parent Codes: 37 382901     Sphyraena spp. Previous Codes (if any): 382007

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 2009-01-06. Occurrence locations [81] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 15 m.

Scientific Name Notes:	Doiuchi & Nakabo (2005) noted that usage of the names S. obtusata and S. flavicauda have been confused and what was previously referred to in Australia as S. obtusata is now regarded as S. pinguis and that S. flavicauda is now regarded as a synonym of the real S. obtusata.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0399af32-436a-4e8b-aa51-88bb2d71b362 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia FoA 2547 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212056 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-03-29 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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