Species Aldrovandia phalacra (Vaillant, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Halosaurus phalacrus Vaillant, L.L. 1888. Expéditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883. Paris : G. Masson 406 pp. 28 pls. [185, pls 15(fig. 3), 16(figs 1-1c)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP 1885-382, Morocco, Sudan, Azores.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1890.6.16.56 (ex MNHP); MNHP 1885-385, 1885-386, 1885-388, 1885-398 (6); USNM 42105.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Eschmeyer, W.N. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences 2905 pp., 3 vols. [1328].

 

Generic Combinations

• Aldrovandia phalacra (Vaillant, 1888). —
  McDowell, S.B. 1973. Suborder Halosauroidei, family Halosauridae. In, Cohen, D.M. (ed.) Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Memoir. Sears Foundation of Marine Research 1(6): 32-123 figs 6-13 [105] (changed combination cited)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Great Australian Bight SW of Ceduna (34º39'S, 132º24'E) to north of Rowley Shoals (16º38'S, 119º09'E), WA, and Coral Sea east of Cape York (10º32'S, 145º38'E) to east of Woolgoolga, NSW (30º06'S, 153º36'E), also north-east of Lord Howe Island; tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

1022–1500 m.

 

General References

Paxton, J.R., J.E. Gates, D.J. Bray & D.F. Hoese 2006. Halosauridae. pp. 229-231 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [230]

Quéro, J.-C., Hureau, J.-C., Karrer, C., Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (eds) 1990. Check-list of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic. Paris : UNESCO 1492 pp., 3 vols. [128]

Shelyagin, D.I. 2010. Osteology of Halosauridae (Notacanthiformes). Journal of Ichthyology 50(7): 512-518 [515]

Smith, D.G. 1999. Families Halosauridae, Notacanthidae, Lipogenyidae, Anguillidae, Moringuidae, Chlopsidae, Myrocongridae. pp. 1625-1642 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1626]

 

Common Name References

FAO-FIES 2017. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) species list. http://www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en (Hawaiian Halosaurid Fish)

Fishbase 2004. Fishbase at. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary. (Fishbase) (Hawaiian Halosaurid Fish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Baldhead Halosaur)

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [20] (Baldhead Halosaur)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Mar-2019	ELOPOMORPHA	17-Aug-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM)
27-Jul-2016	NOTACANTHIFORMES	19-May-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		26-Jul-2010	MODIFIED