Species Grammicolepis brachiusculus Poey, 1873

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• Grammicolepis brachiusculus Poey, F. 1873. Grammicolepis brachiusculus, tipo de una nueva familia en la clase de los peces. Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 2: 403-406 [403].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown skeleton (presumed lost), Havana, Cuba.
• Xenolepidichthys americanus Nichols, J.T. & Firth, F.E. 1939. Rare fishes off the Atlantic coast including a new grammicolepid. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 52: 85-88 fig. 1 [85, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMNH 14107, Some 220 miles east-southeast of Boston Lightship at the outer edge of George's Bank, northwestern Atlantic, depth 50 fathoms.
• Daramattus armatus Smith, J.L.B. 1960. A new grammicolepid fish from South Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 3(28): 231-235 figs 3-4 [231, pls 3-4].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAIAB 43, East London, South Africa.
  Paratype(s) SAM (missing), Table Bay, South Africa; SAM (missing), Japan.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Karrer, C. 1990. Family Grammicolepididae. pp. 634-636 in Quéro, J.-C., Hureau, J.-C., Karrer, C., Post, A. & Saldanha, L. (eds). Check-list of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic. Paris : UNESCO 1492 pp., 3 vols. [634]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Daramattus americanus (Nichols & Firth, 1939). —
  Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [391]
• Daramattus armatus Smith, 1960. —
  Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [391]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off the Clarence River, NSW (29º20´S) to off NW TAS (41º15´S, 144º04´S), and Houtman Abrolhos (28°30'S) to north of Dampier Archipelago (20°39'S), WA; also recorded from the Lord Howe Rise and the Norfolk Ridge; tropical, temperate, Atlantic Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Timor Province (2), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Transition (3), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

351-865m.

 

General References

Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M. & Wantiez, L. 2011. Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) Neue Serie 4: 341-463 [374]

Heemstra, P.C. 1999. Families Parazenidae, Macrocyttidae, Zeidae, Grammicolepididae, Caproidae. pp. 2257-2261 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790. [2260]

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [26]

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Grammicolepididae. pp. 797-798 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. [797]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [391] (as Daramattus americanus and D. armatus)

Tyler, J.C., O'Toole, B. & Winterbottom, R.W. 2003. Phylogeny of the genera and families of zeiform fishes, with comments on their relationships with tetraodontiforms and caproids. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 618: 1-110 [15]

 

Common Name References

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Web 2004. Fishbase. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary., Fishbase, AFS) (Thorny Tinselfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-May-2013		06-May-2013	MODIFIED
20-May-2011		20-May-2011	MODIFIED
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED