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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 37 470004 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Ranzania laevis   (Pennant, 1776)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: B. Hutchins, Western Australian Museum
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: B. Hutchins, Western Australian Museum
Family: 37 470 Molidae (Ocean Sunfishes) - show full list
Standard Name (AS5300): Slender Sunfish
Organism Type: an ocean sunfish
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic)
Parent Codes: 37 470903     Ranzania spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
470004
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2012-07-24.
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Expected species depth range is from 0 to 5000 m.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:322a6a9e-3242-4906-8cfb-bdf29d628f6e
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
FoA 786
View at FoA
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127406
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-04-21
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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