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Species Ariosoma mauritianum (Pappenheim, 1914)

Blunt-tooth Conger

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

West of Rottnest Island (32º00'S, 114º55'E) to NW of Port Hedland (18º16'S, 118°12'E) WA, off Sydney, NSW (33º33´S, 154°04'E) and possibly off the west coast of TAS (42°15'S, 144°43'E), distribution on east coast uncertain following removal of A. howensis from synonymy with this species; tropical, Indo-west Pacific.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Central Eastern Province (12), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, inshore, soft bottom.

Extra Ecological Information

18-110 m

 

General References

Castle, P.H.J. 1964. Congrid leptocephali in Australasian waters with descriptions of Conger wilsoni (Bl. and Schn.) and C. verreauxi Kaup. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington (37): 1-44 figs 1-10

Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. 2011. Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) Neue Serie 4: 341-463 [353]

Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.

Hoese, D.F. & Gates, J.E. 2006. Congridae. pp. 287-297 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. [289]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [17]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [140]

Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds) 1986. Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls. [162]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [36] (355a)

 

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)
05-Mar-2019 ELOPOMORPHA 30-Jun-2018 MODIFIED Dr Doug Hoese (AM)
23-Sep-2011 ANGUILLIFORMES 23-Sep-2011 MOVED Dr Dianne Bray
27-Jul-2010 MODIFIED