Species Contusus richei (Fréminville, 1813)
Barred Toadfish, Globefish, Prickly Toadfish, Prickly Toado
- Tetrodon richei Fréminville, C.P.P. 1813. Description de quelques nouvelles espèces des Poissons de l'ordre des Branchiosteges. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris Histoire naturelle. Zoologie 3(67): 249-253 [not seen] [250, pl. 4(2)].
Type data:
Holotype whereabouts unknown, South Australia (as 'sur les côtes de la terre de Nyts')
Comment: MNHP B.1503–5044 often listed as syntypes, but Hardy (1981) suggested that the description was based on a single specimen, larger than the two specimens now labelled types.
Generic Combinations
- Contusus richei (Fréminville, 1813). —
Whitley, G.P. 1947. New sharks and fishes from Western Australia. Part 3. The Australian Zoologist 11(2): 129-150 figs 1-3 pl. 11 [147] (changed combination as type of genus Contusus) - Spheroides richei (Fréminville, 1813). —
Jordan, D.S. & Snyder, J.O. 1901. A review of the Gymnodont fishes of Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 24(1254): 229-264 [248]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [431] - Sphaeroides richei (Fréminville, 1813). —
Waite, E.R. 1904. A synopsis of the fishes of New South Wales. Memoirs of the New South Wales Naturalists' Club 2: 1-59 [57] - Amblyrhynchotes richei (Fréminville, 1813). —
Fraser-Brunner, A. 1943. Notes on the plectognath fishes. VIII. The classification of the suborder Tetraodontoidea, with a synopsis of the genera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 10(1): 1-18 figs 1-4 [11] - Uranostoma richei (Fréminville, 1813). —
Whitley, G.P. 1970. Ichthyological quiddities. The Australian Zoologist 15(3): 242-247 [247]
Introduction
Records of this species from before 1981 are sometimes based on misidentifations of Contusus brevicaudus.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Clarence River, NSW (29°29'S) to Ceduna, SA (133°40'E), and TAS; temperate, south-west Pacific (New Zealand).
IMCRA
Tasman Basin Province (13), 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)
Ecological Descriptors
Coastal, continental shelf, estuary, inshore.
Extra Ecological Information
To 50 m.
General References
Hardy, G.S. 1981. A redescription of the pufferfish Contusus richei (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), and description of a second species of Contusus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 8: 11-23 figs 1-3 [14]
Hardy, G.S. 1994. Family Tetraodontidae. pp. 902-912, figs 795-804 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. [905]
Matsuura, K. 2008. Families Ostraciidae, Tetraodontidae. pp. 842-856 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [851]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [431] (as Spheroides richei)
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [59]
Common Name References
Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [516] (Barred Toadfish, Globefish, Prickly Toadfish)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Barred Toadfish)
Thomson, J.M. 1978. A Field Guide to the Common Sea & Estuary Fishes of Non-tropical Australia. Sydney : Collins 144 pp. [63] (Prickly Toado)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |