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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Tetraodontiformes (order)  »  Tetraodontidae (family)

CAAB Code:	37 467015 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Chelonodontops patoca   (Hamilton, 1822)
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: 37 467 Tetraodontidae (Toadfishes) - show full list Standard Name (AS5300): Milkspot Toadfish Common Names List: mottled pufferfish Organism Type: a toadfish Synonyms: Chelonodon patoca [in most references prior to 2015] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Freshwater Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 467916     Chelonodontops spp. Previous Codes (if any): 467015

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 2022-01-12. Occurrence locations [167] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 42 m.

Taxon Notes:

Kottelat et al 2013 noted that Chelonodontops patoca has long been placed in Chelonodon, but the type species of Chelonodon is Tetraodon cutcutia. Tyler (1980: 336) had placed T. patoca in the same genus as T. fluviatilis and related species, which he called Chelonodon. The oldest available name for a genus including T. fluviatilis is Dichotomyctere. However, T. patoca has rarely been treated as congeneric with T. fluviatilis. It is treated as belonging to a distinct genus, for which the only available name is Chelonodontops. Recent molecular analyses are congruent with this conclusion (Igarashi et al., 2013). Matsuura (2015) also agreed with this placement.

Identifiers:

WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1591143 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-24 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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