CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	37 467069 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Canthigaster leoparda Lubbock & Allen, 1979
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	37 - Pisces Fishes
Family:	37 467 Tetraodontidae (Toadfishes) - show full list
Standard Name:	[a toadfish]
Organism Type:	a toadfish
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Parent Codes:	37 467902 Canthigaster spp.

Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2022-02-18.
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Expected species depth range is from 30 to 50 m.

Taxon Notes:

Added based on Christmas Island record (Indian Ocean, Australian EEZ) reported in Allen et al, 2007; Allen & Erdmann 2012.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1a1d4ce3-988d-44c0-b6bd-cd6157bffaac Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA	4991 View at FoA
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:275258 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report