Species Rexea prometheoides (Bleeker, 1856)

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• Thyrsites prometheoides Bleeker, P. 1856. Beschrijvingen van nieuwe en weinig bekende vischsoorten van Amboina, verzameld op eene reis door den Molukschen Archipel, gedaan in het gevolg van den Gouverneur-Generaal Duymaer van Twist in September en October 1855. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Indo-Neerlandicae 1: 1-76 [42].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH 6033, Ambon (as Amboina), Indonesia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Rexea prometheoides (Bleeker, 1856). —
  Parin, N.V. & Becker, V.E. 1972. Materials on taxonomy and distribution of some trichiuroid fishes (Pisces: Trichiuroidei: Scombrolabracidae, Gempylidae and Trichiuridae). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 93: 110-204 [in Russian] [124]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Shark Bay, WA (25°S) to east of Broken Bay, NSW (33°42'S), also Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea (168°E), absent from Gulf of Carpentaria; tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), 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), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthopelagic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

From 135 to 540 m.

 

General References

Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp. [257]

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. [49]

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. [3704]

Parin, N.V. 1989. A review of the genus Rexea (Gempylidae) with descriptions of three new species. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 29(1): 3-23 [in Russian] [16]

Parin, N.V. & Paxton, J.R. 1990. Australia's east coast gemfish. Australian Fisheries 49(5): 115 [115]

 

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. [49] (Prometheus Gemfish, Royal Escolar)

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

 

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)