Genus Argentina Linnaeus, 1758

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External Links

• Argentina Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [315].

  Type species:

   Argentina sphyraena Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ARGENTINIDAE: Argentina elongata Hutton, 1879 [restricted to New Zealand] — Cohen, D.M. & Atsaides, S.P. 1970. Additions to a revision of argentinine fishes. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 68(1): 13-36 figs 1-13 [18]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Jun-2016	PROTACANTHOPTERYGII	06-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett
06-Jun-2016	ARGENTINIFORMES	20-May-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
06-Jun-2016		13-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED