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CAAB: 37400023

Species Uranoscopus terraereginae Ogilby, 1910

Queensland Stargazer, Armed Star-gazer, Armed Stargazer

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Off Shark Bay, WA to Afarufa Sea, NT and SE of Cairns, QLD (17°30'S) to off Sydney NSW (33°34'S), records of Uranoscopus affinis from Western Australia and the Northern Territory may belong to a different species of uncertain identity; tropical

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, soft bottom–marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 45-350 m.

 

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)
08-Oct-2015 TRACHINOIDEI 28-Sep-2015 MODIFIED Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
22-Sep-2011 22-Sep-2011 MODIFIED
27-Jul-2010 MODIFIED