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)  »  Uranoscopidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 400001 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Xenocephalus armatus   Kaup, 1858

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: 37 400 Uranoscopidae (Stargazers) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Bulldog Stargazer
Common Names List: bulldog stargazer
Organism Type: a stargazer
Synonyms: Gnathagnus innotabilis
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 400905     Xenocephalus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
400001
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06.
Occurrence locations [566] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
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Expected species depth range is from 10 to 549 m.
Scientific Name Notes:The name of this species changed in 1994 from Gnathagnus innotabilis to Xenocephalus armatus.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ebeadabe-1efd-411b-b510-4b9b44fe2e1b
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 4188
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:315934
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-01-11
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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