Genus Kajikia Hirasaka & Nakamura, 1950

Museums

Regional Maps

• Kajikia Hirasaka, K. & Nakamura, H. in Marshall, N.B., Palmer, G. & White, E.I. (eds) 1950. Pisces for 1947. Zoological Record 84(15): 1-65 [61].

  Type species:

   Kajikia formosana Hirasaka & Nakamura, 1947 by original designation.
• Kajikia Hirasaka, K. & Nakamura, H. 1947. On the Formosan spear-fishes. Bulletin of the Oceanographic Institute, Taiwan 9: 9-24 [12] [nomen nudum, without designated type species].

 

Introduction

This genus was only recently recognised as distinct (Collette et al. 2006) from Tetrapturus..

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

General References

Collette, B.B., McDowell, J.R. & Graves, J.E. 2006. Phylogeny of recent billfishes (Xiphioidei). Bulletin of Marine Science 79(3): 455-468

Graves, J.E. & McDowell, J.R. 2003. Stock structure of the world's istiophorid billfishes: a genetic perspective. Marine and Freshwater Research 54: 287-298

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		08-May-2012	ADDED