Species Lobianchia gemellarii (Cocco, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Nyctophus gemellarii Cocco, A. 1838. Su di alcuni Salmonidi del mare di Messina; lettera al Ch. D. Carle Luciano Bonaparte. Nuovi Annali delle Scienze Naturali. Bologna 1(2): 161-194 pls 5-8 [186, pl. 7(9); as 26, pl. 3(9)] [as Nyctophus Gemellarii].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Sea of Messina.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Cape Bouvard (32º44´S) to off North West Cape (22º12´S), WA and off Townsville, QLD (16º42´S) to off Port Kembla, NSW (34º28´S); tropical, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE oceanic
  • Queensland: NE oceanic, SE oceanic
  • Western Australia: W oceanic

Ecological Descriptors

Mesopelagic.

 

General References

Nafpaktitis, B.G., Backus, R.H., Craddock, J.E., Haedrich, R.L., Robison, B.H. & Karnella, C. 1977. Family Myctophidae. In, Gibbs, R.H. (ed.) Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Memoir. Sears Foundation of Marine Research 1(7): 13-265 figs 1-180

 

Common Name References

Fishbase 2004. Fishbase at. http://www.fishbase.org/Summary. (Fishbase) (Cocco's Lantern Fish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Gemellar's Lanternfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED