CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 440002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 440 Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Frostfish
Common Names List:	ribbonfish southern frostfish
Organism Type:	a hairtail
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Slope Demersal (200-2000m) Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Bathypelagic (1000-2000m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes:	37 440905 Lepidopus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	440002

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 [524] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile

Expected species depth range is from 9 to 400 m.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:12e4d55f-aab2-4416-85fa-0e5c2060a358 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	738 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA
ITIS	172391 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127088 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-05-08 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images Credit: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike	Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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