Species Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1825

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Species Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1825

Northern Sand Flathead (standard name for P. arenarius), Flag-tail Flathead, Flagtail Flathead, Northern-flag Tailed Flathead, Sand Flathead

Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1825. Chapter 9. Poissons. pp. 329-401 pls 43-65 in Freycinet, L.C.D. de (ed.). Voyage Autour du Monde, entrepris par orde du Roi, sous le Ministère et conformément aux instructions de S. Exc. M. le Vicomte de Boucharge, secrétaire d'État au Département de la Marine exécuté sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendent les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820; publié sous les auspices de S.E.M. le Conte Corbière, secrétaire d'État de l'Intérieur, pour la partie historique et les sciences naturelles, et de S.E.M. le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, Secrétaire d'État de la Marine et des Colonies, pour la partie nautique; par M. Louis Freycinet, etc. Paris : Pillet Aîné Vol. 1 + atlas iv 712 pp. [published in parts Sherborn, C.D. & Woodward, B.B. 1901. Notes on the dates of publication of the natural history portions of some French voyages. Part I. Amérique meridionale; Indes orientales; Pôle Sud (Astrolabe and Zélée); La Bonite; La Coquille; and L'Uranie et La Physcienne. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(7): 388–392 [392]] [353].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP 6865, Shark Bay, WA.
Paralectotype(s) MNHP 2007-0128.
Subsequent designation references:
Imamura, H. 2008. Synonymy of two species of the genus Platycephalus and validity of Platycephalus westraliae (Teleostei: Platycephalidae). Zoological Research 55: 399-406 [400].
Platycephalus arenarius Ramsay, E.P. & Ogilby, J.D. 1886. Descriptions of new or rare Australian fishes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 10(4): 575-579 [577] [first appeared as name only in Ramsay & Ogilby 1885. Most records of P. arenarius prior to Imamura 2008 probably refer to P. endrachtensis].
Type data:
Holotype AM B.7136, Middle Harbour, Port Jackson, NSW.
Secondary source:
Ramsay, E.P. & Ogilby, J.D. 1885. 2. Descriptions of some new or rare Australian Fishes. Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28 Oct. 1885: i-vii.

Introduction

This species was initially treated as a junior synonym of P. indicus by early workers (e.g. McCulloch 1929). Taylor (1964) recognised it as valid and applied the name to a species of Platycephalus from northern Australia having a caudal fin with bright orange to yellow on the upper lobe, and three jet black bands below. Many authors then used the name P. endrachtensis for the species having these characters.

Recently, following examination of the type specimens, Imamura (2008) has demonstrated that P. endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 is a senior synonym of Platycephalus arenarius Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886. Furthermore it was shown that the species with the characters outlined above should be referred to the name Platycephalus westraliae Whitley 1938, and this species elevated from a sub-species of P. bassensis. No specimens of P. endrachtensis collected between Port Hedland, WA and Cliff Point, QLD, exist in major Australian ichthyological collections (Imamura 2015).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Hamelin Bay (34º10'S) to Port Hedland (20º14'S), WA, and Cliff Point, QLD (22º32'S) to St Helens, TAS (41º16'S), records from northern Australia are most likely misidentifications of P. westraliae; temperate, tropical, east-Indo-west Pacific (Indonesia)

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)