Species Grammonus robustus Smith & Radcliffe, 1913

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Grammonus robustus Smith, H.M. & Radcliffe, L. in Radcliffe, L. 1913. Descriptions of seven new genera and thirty-one new species of fishes of the families Brotulidae and Carapidae from the Philippine Islands and the Dutch East Indies. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 44(1948): 135-176 pls 7-17 [168, pl. 13 (4)].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 74149, between Cebu and Leyte, Philippines, 189 fathoms. [10°38'00"N, 124°13'08"E].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Off Townsville, QLD (17°55'S,147°05°E) and Marian Plateau, north of Saumarez Reef to southern Coral Sea, QLD (23°20'S, 152°40'E); tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth range: 45-351 m.

 

General References

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. [104]

Nielsen, J. G. & Cohen, D. M. 2004. Grammonus thielei (Ophidiiformes: Bythitidae) -- a new bythitid cavefish from off Sulawesi, Indonesia. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 20: 83-86 [85]

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. [1984] (as Oligopus robustus)

 

Common Name References

Fishbase 2004. Fishbase at. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary. (26 September 2011) (Humpback Cusk)

Yamada, U., Shirai, S., Irie, T., Tokimura, M., Deng, S. Zheng, Y., Li, C., Kim, Y.U. & Kim, Y.S. 1995. Names and illustrations of fishes from the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. Tokyo, Japan : Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation 288 pp. (Humpback Brotula)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Jun-2015	OPHIDIIFORMES	25-May-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED