Species Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833
Oilfish, Castor Oil Fish, Escolar, Oil-fish
Compiler and date details
9 May 2012 - Douglass F. Hoese, Dianne J. Bray, & Matthew M. Lockett
20 December 2006 - Dianne J. Bray & Douglass F. Hoese
- Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, A. 1833. Cenni sui genera Ruvettus e sui caratteri che lo distinguone. Osservationes Peloritani 13: 18 [18] (name appeared without description in Cocco, A. 1833. Su di alcuni pesci de'mari di Messina. Giornale di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti per la Sicilia (Palermo) 42(124): 9-21 pl. [21]).
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Messina, Italy. - Ruvettus tydemani Weber, M. 1913. Die Fische der Siboga-Expedition. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 57: 1-710 123 figs 12 pls [401].
Type data:
Holotype ZMA 109999, Malay Archipelago, Binongka Island, Siboga station 220, depth 250 meters.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Off Gladstone, QLD (23°35'S) to the Northwest Shelf, WA (16°54'S) and Arafura Sea north of Bathurst Island (9°47'S, 130°25'E); tropical, temperate, circumglobal.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northwest Transition (3), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthopelagic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine, oceanic province.
Extra Ecological Information
100-800 m.
General References
Gomon, M.F. 1994. Family Gempylidae. pp. 813-816, figs 718-720 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. [815]
Gomon, M.F. 2008. Families Sphyraenidae to Centrolophidae. pp. 774-800 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [778]
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] [116] (770, as Ruvettus tydemani)
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. [3708]
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [48] (1426, as R. tydemani)
Common Name References
Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds) 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs. [815] (Oilfish, Castor Oil Fish)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Oilfish)
Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Ward, R.D. (eds) 1999. Australian Seafood Handbook. Hobart : CSIRO Marine Research 460 pp. [132] (Australian Marketing Name) (Escolar, Oil-fish)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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15-May-2013 | 15-May-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |