Genus Stomias Cuvier, 1816

Museums

Regional Maps

External Links

• Stomias Cuvier, G.L. 1816. Le Règne Animal, distribué d'après son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Les reptiles et les poisons. Paris : Déterville Vol. 2 pp. 104-351. [184].

  Type species:

   Esox boa Risso, 1810 by subsequent designation, see Goode, G.B. & Bean, T.H. 1896. Oceanic ichthyology. Special Bulletin. United States National Museum 2: 1-553 pls 1-123 [dated 1895] [107].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, temperate, circumglobal.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Fink, W. L & Fink, S.V. 1986. A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Stomias, including the synonymization of Macrostomias. Copeia 1986(2): 494-503

Gibbs, R.H. 1969. Taxonomy, sexual dimorphism, vertical distribution and evolutionary zoogeography of the bathypelagic fish genus Stomias (Stomiidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 31: 1-25 figs 1-6

Kenaley, C.P. & Stewart, A.L. 2015. Subfamily Stomiinae. pp. 487-491 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 2 pp. 1-576.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
11-Sep-2020	STOMIIFORMES	16-Oct-2019	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
		27-Jul-2010	MODIFIED