Species Brachaluteres jacksonianus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

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External Links

• Balistes jacksonianus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Chapter 8. Poissons. 183-328 pls 43-65 in Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par ordre du Roi, exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 712 pp. 96 pls. [209].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Sydney, NSW.
• Aleuterius trossulus Richardson, J. 1846. Ichthyology. 53-74 pls 31-41, 43-44 & 53 (part) in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839–43. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 2 139 pp. [for date of publication Hureau, J.C. & Monod, Th. (eds) 1973. Checklist of the Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean. CLOFNAM 1. Paris : UNESCO 331 pp. [127]] [68, pl. 40, figs 5-6].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Swan River, WA.
• Monacanthus oculatus Günther, A. 1870. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, [thru] Leptocardii, in the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 8 549 pp. [235].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1855.12.26, Port Lincoln, SA.
• Monacanthus distortus Castelnau, F.L. de 1873. Contribution to the ichthyology of Australia. 8. Fishes of Western Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological and Acclimatisation Society of Victoria 2: 123-149 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP A.4564, Swan River, near Fremantle, WA.

  Type locality references:

  Beaunier, M., Desoutter-Meniger, M. & Pruvost, P. 2008. Révision critique d'un catalogue des types de poissons du Muséum national d'Historie naturelle. Familles des Triacanthidae, Balistidae et Monacanthidae. Cybium 32(4): 285-308 [292].
• Brachaluteres fidens Whitley, G.P. 1931. New names for Australian fishes. The Australian Zoologist 6(4): 310-334 1 fig. pls 25-27 [333].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM IA.1822, Shellharbour, NSW.
• Brachaluteres wolfei Scott, E.O.G. 1969. Description of Brachaluteres wolfei, sp. nov. (Aluteridae) and first Tasmanian record of Urolophus paucimaculatus Dixon, 1969 (Urolophidae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 103: 35-45 [39, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype TDA, Schouten Passage, eastern TAS.
• Aleuterius baueri Richardson, J. 1846. Ichthyology. 53-74 pls 31-41, 43-44 & 53 (part) in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839–43. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 2 139 pp. [for date of publication Hureau, J.C. & Monod, Th. (eds) 1973. Checklist of the Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and of the Mediterranean. CLOFNAM 1. Paris : UNESCO 331 pp. [127]] [68] [as Aleuterius? Baueri; based on drawing].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hutchins, J.B. 1977. Descriptions of three new genera and eight new species of monacanthid fishes from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5(1): 3-58 figs 1-13 [54]

 

Generic Combinations

• Brachaluteres baueri (Richardson, 1846). —
  McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [421]
• Cantherhines distortus (Castelnau, 1873). —
  McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [419]
• Brachaluteres jacksonianus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824). —
  Marshall, T.C. 1953. Ichthyological notes. No. 2. Department of Harbours and Marine. Queensland 2: 48-63 pls 1-3 [62]
• Brachaluteres trossulus (Richardson, 1846). —
  Bleeker, P. 1865. Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néerlandaises, publié sous les auspices du Gouvernement colonial néerlandais. Tome 5. Baudroies, Ostracions, Gymnodontes, Balistes. Amsterdam : Fréd. Müller 152 pp. pls 194-231. [100] (as type of genus Brachaluteres)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Stradbroke Island, QLD (27°25'S) to Cervantes, WA (30°29'S) and TAS; temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coastal, estuary, inshore, rock reef, seagrass.

Extra Ecological Information

0-25 m.

 

General References

Hutchins, J.B. 1994. Family Monacanthidae. pp. 866-891 figs 767-787 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [871]

Hutchins, J.B. 2008. Family Monacanthidae. pp. 822-841 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [827]

Hutchins, J.B. & Thompson, M. 1983. The Marine and Estuarine Fishes of South-western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 103 pp. 345 figs. [68, 87]

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [410]

Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [498]

May, J.L. & Maxwell, J.G.H. 1986. Field Guide to Trawl Fish from Temperate Waters of Australia. Hobart : CSIRO Division of Marine Research 492 pp. [397]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [411] (as Balistes jacksonianus, p. 419, as Cantherhines distortus, p. 421, as Brachaluteres baueri and B. trossulus)

Swainston, R. 2011. Swainston's Fishes of Australia: The complete illustrated guide. Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Australia 836 pp. [763]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [59] (2374, 2375 as Brachaluteres trossulus and 2376, as B. baueri)

 

Common Name References

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [871] (Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket)

Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [498] (Pigmy Leatherjacket, Pygmy Leatherjacket)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)