Species Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill, 1883)

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External Links

• Plectromus suborbitalis Gill, T.N. 1883. Diagnosis of new genera and species of deep-sea fish-like vertebrates. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 6(380): 253-260 [258].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 33271, off New York, 1735 fathoms [38°53´N, 69°25´W].

 

Generic Combinations

• Melamphaes suborbitalis (Gill, 1883). —
  Ebeling, A.W. 1962. Melamphaidae I. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Günther. Dana Reports 58: 1-164 figs 1-73 [56]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Off Port Macquarie (31ºS) to off Brush Island (35º32´S), NSW, Great Australian Bight, SA and Norfolk Ridge; tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Norfolk Island Province (21), Southern Province (8)

Ecological Descriptors

Bathypelagic, mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

500 - 2000 m.

 

General References

Ebeling, A.W. 1962. Melamphaidae I. Systematics and zoogeography of the species in the bathypelagic fish genus Melamphaes Günther. Dana Reports 58: 1-164 figs 1-73 [56]

Kotlyar, A.N. 1996. Beryciform Fishes of the World Ocean. Moscow : VNIRO Publishing 368 pp. [274]

Kotlyar, A.N. 1999. Melamphaes suborbitalis (Melamphaidae): osteology, intraspecific structure, distribution, and description of a new species, Melamphaes parini sp. nova. Voprosy Ikhtiologii 39(4): 447-459 [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology 39(6): 421-432]

Kotlyar, A.N. 2004. Family Melamphaidae Gill 1893 -- bigscales. California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes 29: 1-11 [4]

Kotlyar, A.N. 2012. Revision of the Genus Melamphaes (Melamphaidae): Part 3. Multirakered Species: M. suborbitalis, M. parini, and M. acanthomus. Journal of Ichthyology 52(2): 137-148 [137]

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Melamphaidae. pp. 747-749 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [748]

Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp. [371]

Stewart, A.L. & Bray, D.J. 2015. Family Melamphaidae. pp. 977-991 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 3 pp. 577-1152. [983]

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [40] (745)

 

Common Name References

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

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Standard names of Australian fishes. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper 9: 1-64 [31] (Shoulderspine Bigscale)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	STEPHANOBERYCIFORMES	27-May-2020	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED