Species Nealotus tripes Johnson, 1865

• Nealotus tripes Johnson, J.Y. 1865. Description of a new genus of trichiuroid fishes obtained at Madeira with remarks on the genus Dicrotus Günther, and on some allied genera of Trichiuridae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 434-437 [434].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Madeira.
• Machaerope latispinis Ogilby, J.D. 1899. Additions to the fauna of Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23(4): 730-745 [dated 1898] [737].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM I.74, Lord Howe Island.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nakamura, I. & Parin, N.V. 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world (families Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Snake Mackerels, Snoeks, Escolars, Gemfishes, Sackfishes, Domine, Oilfish, Cutlassfishes, Scabbardfishes, Hairtails, and Frostfishes known to date. Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 15. Rome : FAO 136 pp. 200 figs. [30]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Houtman Abrolhos, WA (28°35'S) to north of Bathurst Island, NT, and off Raine Island, QLD (11º35'S) to off Batemans Bay, NSW (35°30'S), also Lord Howe Island, absent from Gulf of Carpentaria; tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, epipelagic, marine, mesopelagic, oceanic province, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

From surface to 600 m.

 

General References

Nakamura, I. & Parin, N.V. 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world (families Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Snake Mackerels, Snoeks, Escolars, Gemfishes, Sackfishes, Domine, Oilfish, Cutlassfishes, Scabbardfishes, Hairtails, and Frostfishes known to date. Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 15. Rome : FAO 136 pp. 200 figs. [31]

Nakamura, I. & Parin, N.V. 2001. Gempylidae, Trichiuridae. pp. 3698-3720 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218. [3705]

Nakamura, I. & Paxton, J.R. 1977. A juvenile gemyplid fish, Nealotus tripes, from eastern Australia. The Australian Zoologist 19(2): 179-184 [179]

 

Common Name References

Nakamura, I. & Parin, N.V. 1993. FAO Species Catalogue. Snake mackerels and cutlassfishes of the world (families Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Snake Mackerels, Snoeks, Escolars, Gemfishes, Sackfishes, Domine, Oilfish, Cutlassfishes, Scabbardfishes, Hairtails, and Frostfishes known to date. Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, Vol. 15. Rome : FAO 136 pp. 200 figs. [30] (Black Snake Mackerel)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Black Snake Mackerel)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-May-2013		15-May-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)