Species Trianectes bucephalus McCulloch & Waite, 1918
Bighead Threefin, Big-head Threefin, Bullhead Triplefin, Ox-headed Triplefin, Verco's Triplefin
- Trianectes bucephalus McCulloch, A.R. & Waite, E.R. 1918. Some new and little known fishes from South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1(1): 39-78 figs 26-31 pls 2-7 [53, pl. 3(3)].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA F.599, Spencer Gulf, SA.
Generic Combinations
- Verconectes bucephalus (McCulloch & Waite, 1918). —
Whitley, G.P. 1931. New names for Australian fishes. The Australian Zoologist 6(4): 310-334 1 fig. pls 25-27 [324] (changed combination as replacement name for Trianectes, but replacement was unnecessary and Trianectes is not a homonym of Trinectes Rafinesque, 1832 in fishes)
Distribution
States
South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Wilsons Promontory, VIC (146°17'E) to Recherche Archipelago (122°15'E), WA and northern TAS (41°05'S); temperate.
Australian Endemic.
IMCRA
Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, inshore, marine, rock reef.
General References
Fricke, R. 1994. Tripterygiid fishes of Australia, New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of 2 new genera and 16 species (Teleostei). Theses Zoologicae 24: 1-585 figs 1-130 [533]
Gomon, M.F. 2008. Family Tripterygiidae. pp. 684-693 in Gomon, M.F., Bray, D.J. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). Fishes of Australia's Southern Coast. Sydney : Reed New Holland 928 pp. [681]
Kuiter, R.H. 1994. Families Blenniidae and Tripterygiidae. pp. 728-740 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. [740]
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part III. Records of the Australian Museum 5: 329–436 [347]
Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [54] (1921, as Verconectes bucephalus)
Common Name References
Fricke, R. 1994. Tripterygiid fishes of Australia, New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific Ocean, with descriptions of 2 new genera and 16 species (Teleostei). Theses Zoologicae 24: 1-585 figs 1-130 [533] (Bullhead Triplefin, Verco's Triplefin)
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. [740] (Bighead Threefin)
Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [323] (Big-head Threefin)
Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Bighead Threefin)
Thomson, J.M. 1978. A Field Guide to the Common Sea & Estuary Fishes of Non-tropical Australia. Sydney : Collins 144 pp. [114] (Ox-headed Triplefin)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 01-Feb-2013 | 01-Feb-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |