Species Arrhamphus sclerolepis Günther, 1866

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Species Arrhamphus sclerolepis Günther, 1866

Snubnose Garfish, Jumping Halfbeak, No Bill Garfish, No-bill Garfish, Northern Snub-nosed Garfish, Short Bill Garfish, Short-beaked Garfish, Short-bill, Snub-nosed Garfish, Snubbie, South-east Snub-nosed Garfish

Arrhamphus sclerolepis Günther, A. 1866. Catalogue of the Fishes of the British Museum. Catalogue of the Physostomi, containing the families Salmonidae, Percopsidae, Galaxidae, Mormyridae, Gymnarchidae, Esocidae, Umbridae, Scombresocidae, Cyprinodontidae, in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 6 368 pp. [276].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH 1862.11.15.127 (locality as '? New Zealand'), Australia.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2015.9.22.1 (specimen in poor condition).
Subsequent designation references:
Collette, B.B. 1974. The garfishes (Hemiramphidae) of Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 29(2): 11-105 figs 1-23 [33].
Type locality references:
Collette, B.B. 1974. The garfishes (Hemiramphidae) of Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 29(2): 11-105 figs 1-23 [33].
Hemiramphus krefftii Steindachner, F. 1867. Ichthyologische Notizen (6) 2. Zur Fischfauna von Port Jackson. Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 56(1): 320-335 fig. 1 [332, pl. 1(figs. 1-2)] [as H. kreftii].
Type data:
Holotype NHMW 5559, Port Jackson, NSW.
Hemirhamphus breviceps Castelnau, F.L. de 1878. Australian fishes, new or little known species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 2(3): 225-248 pls 1-2 [240].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Brisbane, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Collette, B.B. 1974. The garfishes (Hemiramphidae) of Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 29(2): 11-105 figs 1-23 [32]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

Arrhamphus sclerolepis sclerolepis Günther, 1866. —
Collette, B.B. 1974. The garfishes (Hemiramphidae) of Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 29(2): 11-105 figs 1-23 [32]
Arrhamphus sclerolepis krefftii (Steindachner, 1867). —
Collette, B.B. 1974. The garfishes (Hemiramphidae) of Australia and New Zealand. Records of the Australian Museum 29(2): 11-105 figs 1-23 [34]
Hemiramphus argenteus Bennett, 1840 [misidentification, incorrectly listed as senior synonym of breviceps]. —
McCulloch, A.R. 1929. A check-list of the fishes recorded from Australia. Part I. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 5: 1–144 [103]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Carnarvon, WA (24º53´S) to Lindeman Island (22º27´S) (the nominal subspecies) and Rockhampton (23º22´S), QLD, to Laurieton, NSW (31º39´S) and possibly as far south as Port Jackson, NSW (33º51´S) (Arrhamphus sclerolepis krefftii); tropical, New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)