Species Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes, 1833

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External Links

• Psenes cyanophrys Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1833. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 9 512 pp. pls 246-279. [260, pl. 265].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP A.6852, New Ireland.
• Psenes leucurus Valenciennes, A. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1833. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 9 512 pp. pls 246-279. [265].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP A.2334, Port Jackson, NSW; MNHP A.6711, Port Jackson, NSW; MNHP A.6712, Port Jackson, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [123] (an earlier synonymy may exist to determine first reviser as several species now regarded as syonyms were described in the same publication)
• Haedrich, R.L. 1967. The stromateoid fishes; systematics and a classification. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 135(2): 31-139 figs 1-56 [88]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Rowley Shoals, WA (17°35'S), Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea (12°15'S) and off Carter Reef, QLD (14°33'S) to off Stockton Beach, NSW (32°55'S), also east of Osprey Reef, Coral Sea (13°50'S); tropical, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, pelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Juveniles often in near shore surface waters, adults probably benthopelagic.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [1042]

Last, P.R. 2001. Nomeidae, Ariommatidae, Tetragonuridae. pp. 3771-3785 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. [3779]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [123]

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [120] (790)

Parin, N.V. & Piotrovsky, A.S. 2004. Stromateoid fishes (suborder Stromateoidei) of the Indian Ocean (species composition, distribution, biology, and fisheries). Journal of Ichthyology 44(Suppl. 1): 33-62 [53]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [40] (697)

 

Common Name References

Last, P.R. 2001. Nomeidae, Ariommatidae, Tetragonuridae. pp. 3771-3785 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. [3779, FAO] (Freckled Driftfish)

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [120] (Blue Eyebrow-fish)

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
08-Oct-2013	STROMATEOIDEI	08-Oct-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)