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Species Urolophus sufflavus Whitley, 1929

Yellowback Stingaree, Yellow-back Stingaree, Yellow-backed Stingaree

  • Urolophus sufflavus Whitley, G.P. 1929. Additions to the checklist of the fishes of New South Wales No. 2. The Australian Zoologist 5(4): 353-357 [354] [based on Urolophus aurantiacus in McCulloch, A.R. 1916. Report on some fishes obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-Western Australia. Part 4. Biological Results Endeavour 4(4): 169–199 figs 1–2 pls 49–58 [172 pl. 49]].
    Type data:
     
    Syntype(s) AM I.13805 (figured specimen in McCulloch), between Port Hacking and Wollongong, NSW; AM I.13806, between Port Hacking and Wollongong, NSW
    Comment: 11 syntypes known based on McCulloch description, but Whitley did not indicate a holotype in 1929.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Off Stradbroke Island QLD to off Green Cape, NSW (37º16´S); subtropical

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Eastern Province (12), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

45–320 m

 

General References

Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp. [20]

Last, P.R., Yearsley, G. K. & White, W.T. 2016. Stingarees. Family Urolophidae. pp. 676-705 in Last, P.R., White, W.T., Carvalho, M.R. de, Séret, B., Stehmann, M.F.W. & Naylor, G.J.P. (eds.). Rays of the World. Clayton South, Victoria : CSIRO Publishing 790 pp. [703]

Last, P.R. & Compagno, L.V.J. 1999. Family Urolophidae. pp. 1469-1476 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 pp. 1397-2068. [1475]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 1994. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Canberra : CSIRO Australia 513 pp. 84 pls. [440]

Last, P.R. & Stevens, J.D. 2009. Sharks and Rays of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing Australia 2, 550 pp. [425]

McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [27]

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [18] (127)

Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Urolophidae. pp. 197-202 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. [201]

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. [48]

Whitley, G.P. 1940. The Fishes of Australia. Part 1. The sharks, rays, devil-fish, and other primitive fishes of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney : Roy. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. 280 pp. 303 figs. [215] (indicated that figured specimen was holotype, but no holotype was designated in original description)

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [34] (143)

 

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)
05-Aug-2022 MYLIOBATIFORMES 23-Jun-2022 MODIFIED Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett
16-Apr-2012 05-Aug-2014 MODIFIED
16-Mar-2010 MODIFIED