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Species Trachyscorpia eschmeyeri Whitley, 1970

Deepsea Ocean Perch, Cape Scorpionfish, Coral Perch, Deepsea Perch, Ocean Perch

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Lord Howe Rise and Jervis Bay, NSW (34°55'S), south of Gabo Island, VIC (38°15´S) to west of Mandurah, WA (32°40´S); temperate, Indo-west Pacific.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Lord Howe Province (14), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope.

Extra Ecological Information

400-1250m

 

General References

Allen, G.R., Hoese, D.F., Cross, N.J. & Bray, D.J. 2006. Sebastidae. pp. 866-868 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. [867] (as Trachyscorpia eschmeyeri)

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. [493] (as Trachyscorpia capensis)

Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50 [28]

Johnson, J.W. & Motomura, H. 2008. Family Sebastidae. pp. 496-498 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [498] (as Trachyscorpia eschmeyeri)

Mandrytsa, S.A. 2001. Lateral Line System and Classification of Scorpaenoid Fishes (Scorpeaniformes: Scorpaenidei). Perm : Perm State Univ. Press pp. 1-393. [276] (as Trachyscorpia capensis)

McCosker, J.E. 2008. Trachyscorpia osheri and Idiastion hageyi, two new species of deepwater scorpionfishes (Scorpaeniformes: Sebastidae, Scorpaenidae) from the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 4 59(3): 113-123 [118] (as Trachyscorpia eschmeyeri)

Motomura, H., Last, P.R. & Yearsley, G.K. 2007. Two new species of the scorpionfish genus Trachyscorpia (Sebastidae: Sebastolobinae) from the southern Indo-West Pacific, with comments on the distribution of T. eschmeyeri. Zootaxa 1466: 19-34 [31] (as Trachyscorpia eschmeyeri)

Pakhorukov, N.P. 2001. Distribution and behavior of bottom and near-bottom fishes in the Rio Grande Submarine Rise (Atlantic Ocean). Voprosy Ikhtiologii 41(3): 374-381 [In Russian. English translation in Journal of Ichthyology v. 41 (no. 4): 300-307] [379] (as Trachyscorpia capensis)

Poss, S.G. 1994. Family Scorpaenidae. pp. 477-494 figs 428-441 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. [493] (as Trachyscorpia capensis)

Yearsley, G.K., Last, P.R. & Ward, R.D. (eds) 1999. Australian Seafood Handbook. Hobart : CSIRO Marine Research 460 pp. [193] (as Trachyscorpia capensis)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
06-May-2015 SCORPAENIFORMES 16-Mar-2015 MODIFIED Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
27-Jul-2010 MODIFIED