Genus Linophryne Collett, 1886

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External Links

• Linophryne Collett, R. 1886. On a pediculate fish from the sea off Madeira. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1886: 138-143 pl. 15 [138].

  Type species:

   Linophryne lucifer Collett, 1886 by monotypy.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, temperate, discontinuous (west Atlantic and west to central Pacific Oceans).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Transition (3), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Northwest Province (4)

General References

Bertelsen, E. & Pietsch, T.W. 1983. The ceratioid anglerfishes of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 35(2): 77-99 figs 1-18

Pietsch, T.W. 2009. Oceanic Anglerfishes. Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press pp. i-xii + 1-557.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
25-Jun-2015	LOPHIIFORMES	30-Apr-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED