CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 440004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 440 Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300):	Largehead Hairtail
Common Names List:	large-headed hairtail hairtail
Organism Type:	a hairtail
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m) Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes:	37 440901 Trichiurus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	440004, 37 440003, 440003

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 [1264] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile

Expected species depth range is from 0 to 384 m.

Taxon Notes:

Until Burhanuddin & Iwatsuki (2003) Trichiurus nickolensis was confused with this species in Australia.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:116ad1b8-f5a3-484f-b429-173298e563d4 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	2562 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA
ITIS	172385 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127089 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 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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