Species Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824)

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• Balistes australis Donovan, E. 1824. The Naturalist's Repository; or monthly miscellany of exotic natural history. London Vol. 3 unnumbered pages pls 73–108. [pl. 76].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Van Diemen's Land.
• Monacanthus convexirostris Günther, A. 1870. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, and of the Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, [thru] Leptocardii, in the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 8 549 pp. [248].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1849.11.2.4, New Zealand and George Town, TAS; BMNH 1860.12.9.1, New Zealand and George Town, TAS.
• Monacanthus rudis Richardson, J. 1840. On some new species of fishes from Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 8: 25-30 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 2009.3.9.4 (possible holotype), Port Arthur, TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hutchins, J.B. 1977. Descriptions of three new genera and eight new species of monacanthid fishes from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5(1): 3-58 figs 1-13 [55]

 

Generic Combinations

• Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824). —
  Hutchins, J.B. 1977. Descriptions of three new genera and eight new species of monacanthid fishes from Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 5(1): 3-58 figs 1-13 [55]
• Cantherhines australis (Donovan, 1824). —
  McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [419]
• Navodon australis (Donovan, 1824). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1930. Leatherjacket genera. The Australian Zoologist 6(2): 179 [179] (changed combination as type of genus Navodon)
• Meuschenia convexirostris (Günther, 1870). —
  McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [416]
• Allomonacanthus convexirostris (Günther, 1870). —
  Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [58]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Wilsons Promontory, VIC (146°25'E) to Robe, SA (139°45'E) and TAS; temperate.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Inshore, rock reef.

Extra Ecological Information

0-20 m.

 

General References

Edgar, G.J. 2008. Australian Marine Life: the plants and animals of temperate waters. Sydney : Reed New Holland 2nd edn, 624 pp. [575]

Hutchins, J.B. 1994. Family Monacanthidae. pp. 866-891 figs 767-787 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [879]

Hutchins, J.B. 2008. Family Monacanthidae. pp. 822-841 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [833]

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [403]

Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [501]

May, J.L. & Maxwell, J.G.H. 1986. Field Guide to Trawl Fish from Temperate Waters of Australia. Hobart : CSIRO Division of Marine Research 492 pp. [401]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [419] (as Cantherhines australis and p. 416, as Meuschenia convexirostris)

Swainston, R. 2011. Swainston's Fishes of Australia: The complete illustrated guide. Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin Australia 836 pp. [765]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [58] (2353, as Navodon australis and 2339, as Allomonacanthus convexirostris)

 

Common Name References

Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [879] (Brownstriped Leatherjacket)

Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs. [502] (Brown-striped Leatherjacket, Donovan's Leatherjacket, Southern Leatherjacket, White-banded Leatherjacket)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Brownstriped Leatherjacket)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)