Genus Neopataecus Steindachner, 1884

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• Neopataecus Steindachner, F. 1884. Ichthyologische Beiträge (13)1. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Fische Australiens. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 88(1): 1065-1108 figs 1-8 [dated 1883] [1087] [proposed as subgenus of Pataecus Richardson, 1844].

  Type species:

   Pataecus waterhousii Castelnau, 1872 by monotypy (designated as Petaecus maculatus Günther, 1861 based on misidentification of Pataecus waterhousii Castelnau, 1872).

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Pataecus (Neopataecus) Steindachner, 1884 [Neopataecus was originally proposed as a subgenus of Pataecus].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

General References

Gomon, M.F. 1994. Family Pataecidae. pp. 509-512 figs 454-456 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. [510]

Johnson, J.W. 2008. Family Pataecidae. pp. 504-505 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [505]

Mandrytsa, S.A. 1993. Structure of the seismosensory system of the members of the family Pataecidae (Pisces, Acanthopterygii). Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 235. 29-36 [For 1991] [32]

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Pataecidae. pp. 917-918 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [918]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [462]

Washington, B.B., Eschmeyer, W.N. & Howe, K.M. 1984. Scorpaeniformes: relationships. pp. 438-447 figs 240-241 in Moser, H.G. et al. (eds). Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Special Publication 1: 1-760 [440]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-May-2015	SCORPAENIFORMES	16-Apr-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED