Genus Spicomacrurus Okamura, 1970

Museums

Regional Maps

• Spicomacrurus Okamura, O. 1970. Fauna Japonica. Macrourina (Pisces). Tokyo : Academic Press of Japan 216 pp. [63].

  Type species:

   Hymenocephalus kuronumai Kamohara, 1938 by original designation.

Introduction

Spicomacrurus was originally erected as a monotypic subgenus of Hymenocephalus based a single species Hymenocephalus kuronumai Okamurai (1937). Spicomacrurus was recently redefined and elevated to generic status by Iwamoto et al. (2011), and contains four species, two of which occur in Australian waters. Spicomacrurus mccoskeri is known only from the Chesterfield Plateau between New Caledonia and Queensland and is likely to occur in Australia.

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Iwamoto, T., Shao, K-T. & Ho, H-C. 2011. Elevation of Spicomacrurus (Gadiformes: Macrouridae) to generic status, with descriptions of two new species from the southwestern Pacific. Bulletin of Marine Science 87(3): 513–530

Schwarzhans, W. 2014. Head and otolith morphology of the genera Hymenocephalus, Hymenogadus and Spicomacrurus (Macrouridae), with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 3888(1): 001–073

History of changes