Species Schedophilus maculatus Günther, 1860

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Schedophilus maculatus Günther, A. 1860. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Squamipinnes, Cirrhitidae, Triglidae, Trachinidae, Sciaenidae, Polynemidae, Sphyraenidae, Trichiuridae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Xiphiidae. London : British Museum Vol. 2 548 pp. [412].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1848.3.16.150, Sea of China.
• Schedophilus marmoratus Kner, R. & Steindachner, F. 1867. Über neue Fische aus dem Museum der Herren Johann Caesar Godeffroy und Sohn in Hamburg. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien 54(1): 356-395 4 pls [366].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZMH 464, Sudsee
  Comment: (Haedrich, R.L., 1967) listed holotype as ZMH 464, but Karrer (pers. comm.) suggests that the holotype is more probably NHMW 16724; BMNH 1866.12.27.12 also possibly a type.

  Type locality references:

  Haedrich, R.L. 1967. The stromateoid fishes: systematics and a classification. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 135(5): 31-139.
• Hoplocoryphis physaliarum Whitley, G.P. 1933. Studies in Ichthyology No. 7. Records of the Australian Museum 19(1): 60-112 figs 1-4 pls 11-15 [68, pl. 12(4)] [based on Schedophilus maculatus in Ogilby, J.D. 1893. Review of the genus Schedophilus, Cocco, and its allies. Records of the Australian Museum 2(5): 65–73 (68)].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM I.2346, Manly, Sydney, NSW.
  Paratype(s) AM IA.5565.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McDowall, R.M. 1982. The centrolophid fishes of New Zealand (Pisces : Stromateoidei). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 12(2): 103-142 figs 1-20 [125]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Moreton Bay, QLD (27°05'S) to Bass Strait, VIC (39°04'S), also Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island; temperate, possibly circumglobal, but other species often misidentified as this species.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, continental slope, pelagic.

 

General References

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [124]

McDowall, R.M. 1980. First adults of Schidophilus maculatus Günther, 1860 (Stromateoidei: Centrolophidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 10(2): 145-151 figs 1-2

McDowall, R.M. 1982. The centrolophid fishes of New Zealand (Pisces : Stromateoidei). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 12(2): 103-142 figs 1-20 [125]

McDowall, R.M. 2001. Centrolophidae. pp. 3767-3770 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. [3768]

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] [118] (781)

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 [44]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [40] (702, as Hoplocoryphis physaliarum)

 

Common Name References

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. [377] (Pelagic Butterfish)

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] [118] (Raft Fish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Raft-fish)

 

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)