Genus Schedophilus Cocco, 1839

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• Schedophilus Cocco, A. 1839. Sopra un nuova genere di pesci dello famiglia de'Centrolofini e di una nuova species di Trachurus. Innominata Messina 3(7): 56-59 [57].

  Type species:

   Schedophilus medusophagus Cocco, 1839 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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 [123].

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CENTROLOPHIDAE: Schedophilus ovalis (Cuvier, 1833) [previously thought to occur in Australia according to Stehmann, M. von & Lenz, W. (1973)] — McDowall, R.M. 1994. Family Centrolophidae. pp. 832-838, figs 736-741 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. [834]

CENTROLOPHIDAE: Schedophilus velaini (Sauvage, 1879) — Last, P.R., Daley, R.K. & Duhamel, G. 2013. A review of the rudderfish genus Tubbia (Stromateoidei: Centrolophidae) with the description of a new species from the Southern Hemisphere. Zootaxa 3616(5): 461–477 [462]

CENTROLOPHIDAE: Seriolella velaini Sauvage, 1879 [original combination; see Schedophilus velaini (Sauvage, 1879)] — Sauvage, H.E. 1879. Mémoire sur la faune ichthyologique d l'île St. Paul. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 8: 1-46, pls 1-3 [32, pl. 1(2)] (yype data: holotype MNHP 1884–163, St. Paul Island, southern Indian Ocean)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), West Tasmania Transition (9)

General References

Last, P.R., Daley, R.K. & Duhamel, G. 2013. A review of the rudderfish genus Tubbia (Stromateoidei: Centrolophidae) with the description of a new species from the Southern Hemisphere. Zootaxa 3616(5): 461–477

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

Stehmann, M. von & Lenz, W. 1973. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen des FFS "Walther Herwig" nach Südamerika. XXVI. Systematik und Verbreitung der Artengruppe — Seriolella punctata (Schneider, 1801), S. porosa Guichenot, 1848, S. dobula (Günther, 1869) — sowie taxonomis Hyperoglyphe Günther, 1859 und Schedophilus Cocco, 1839 (Osteichthys, Stromateoidei, Centrolophidae). Archiv für Fischereiwissenschaft 23(3): 179-201 9 figs

 

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)
		08-Oct-2013	MODIFIED