Species Coelorinchus thurla Iwamoto & Williams, 1999
Thurla Whiptail
- Caelorinchus thurla Iwamoto, T. & Williams, A. 1999. Grenadiers (Pisces, Gadiformes) from the continental slope of western and northwestern Australia. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 51(3): 105-243 figs 1-58 [164].
Type data:
Holotype WAM P.21638-043, Northwest Shelf, WA [13°45'04"S, 123°30'00"E].
Paratype(s) WAM P.21638-043 4 specimens; NTM S.13147-003; NTM S.13580-002 4 specimens; WAM P.26270-016 2 specimens.
Generic Combinations
- Coelorinchus thurla Iwamoto & Williams, 1999. —
Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293 [51] (correction to spelling of generic name)
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Coelorinchus cf argus [originally called C. cf argus until described as C. thurla. The C. argus recorded in Paxton et al (1989) probably represents the same species but this has not been confirmed].
Introduction
This genus has been incorrectly spelled Caelorinchus by many authors following Eschmeyer (1990) and Sazonov and Iwamoto (1992), however the previous spelling Coelorinchus is now considered to be the correct one (see Iwamoto & Graham 2008).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Northwest of Port Hedland, WA (18°16'S, 118°12'E), to the Arafura Sea northeast of Cobourg Peninsula, NT (9°05´S, 133°05´E); tropical.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Timor Province (2), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Transition (3)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope.
Extra Ecological Information
179-320 m
General References
Bray, D.J., Hoese, D.F., Paxton, J.R. & Gates, J.E. 2006. Macrouridae. pp. 581-607 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. [590] (as Caelorinchus thurla)
Eschmeyer, W.N. 1990. Catalog of the Genera of Recent Fishes. San Francisco : California Academy of Sciences 697 pp. [70] (generic name as Caelorinchus)
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. [85] (as Coelorinchus sp. 5)
Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [23] (as Caelorinchus thurla)
Iwamoto, T. & Graham, K.J. 2008. Two new Australian grenadiers of the Coelorinchus fasciatus species group (Macrouridae: Gadiformes: Teleostei). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 59(5): 133-146 [133]
Sazonov, Y.I. & Iwamoto, T. 1992. Grenadiers (Pisces, Gadiformes) of the Nazca and Sala y Gomez ridges, southeastern Pacific. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 48(2): 27-95 (generic name as Caelorinchus)
Common Name References
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Thurla Whiptail)
Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [29] (Thurla Whiptail)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31-Jul-2018 | MACROURIDAE | 14-May-2018 | MODIFIED | Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett |
| 26-Nov-2015 | GADIFORMES | 17-Aug-2015 | MODIFIED | Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM) |
| 27-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |