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Species Acanthostracion bucephalus Whitley, 1965

Bighead Boxfish

 

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Cooktown district, QLD (15°28'S); tropical, known only from the 69 mm holotype, similar to, and possibly conspecific, with Acanthostracion quadricornis (Linnaeus), a species from the tropical Atlantic, also occurring along the south-eastern coast of Africa and questionably reported from Sumatra.

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Inshore, sublittoral.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)