Genus Eurypleuron Markle & Olney, 1990

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• Eurypleuron Markle, D.F. & Olney, J.E. 1990. Systematics of the pearlfishes (Pisces: Carapidae). Bulletin of Marine Science 47(2): 269-410 [336].

  Type species:

   Carapus owasianus Matsubara, 1953 by original designation.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CARAPIDAE: Eurypleuron owasianum (Matsubara, 1953) — Williams, J.T. & Machida, Y. 1992. Echiodon anchipterus: a valid western Pacific species of the pearlfish family Carapidae with comments on Eurypleuron. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 38(4): 367-373 [372] (restricted to Japan)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Norfolk Island Province (21), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

General References

Hoese, D.F., Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Carapidae. pp. 551-555 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. [554]

Nielsen, J.G., Cohen, D.M., Markle, D.F. & Robins, C.R. 1999. Ophidiiform Fishes of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of pearlfishes, cusk-eels, brotulas and other ophidiiform species known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 Vol. 18. 178 pp. [11, 17]

Nielsen. J.G. 1999. Families Carapidae, Ophidiidae, Bythitidae, Aphionidae. pp. 1978-1985 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1978]

Parmentier, E. 2012. Echiodon prionodon: a new species of Carapidae (Pisces, Ophidiiformes) from New Zealand. European Journal of Taxonomy 31: 1-8

Parmentier, E., Castillo, G., Chardon, M. & Vandewalle, P. 2000. Phylogenetic analysis of the pearlfish tribe Carapini (Pisces: Carapidae). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 81: 293-306 [293]

Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. 1995. Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesberg : Macmillan South Africa 3rd Impression, i-xxxi + 1047 pp., 144 pls. [353]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Sep-2023	OPHIDIIFORMES	15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED
22-Jun-2015	OPHIDIIFORMES	29-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		15-Sep-2023	MODIFIED