User:Pelagic/Incubator/List of marine fish species in southern Australia
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Am leaning towards a table instead of list format, but placing the alternates here for comparison.
This will be a list of marine fish species found in the temperate coastal waters of southern Australia, part of the Temperate Australasia biogeographic realm. This draft contains only the sharks and rays for a start.
Species numbers, names and classification are those used in Sea fishes of Southern Australia (2nd edition) (Q98473068).
After having proofread half the OCR for this list, up to species 488, I just discovered that we already have List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) by PBS and Wgi (based on Evans 2008). :( However, if I go for a table here and cover just the fishes, we can show additional detail.
Species list[edit]
Sharks[edit]
Superorder Selachimorpha.
- Hexanchidae
- Notorynchus cepedianus (Péron, 1807) – seven-gilled shark
- Squalidae
- Squalus megalops (Macleay, 1882) – piked dogfish
- Squalus acanthias Linnaeus, 1758 – white-spotted dogfish
- Heterodontidae
- Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer, 1793) – Port Jackson shark
- Heterodontus galeatus (Günther, 1870) – crested Port Jackson shark
- Parascylliidae
- Parascyllium variolatum (Dumeril, 1853) – varied catshark
- Parascyllium ferrugineum McCulloch, 1911 – rusty catshark
- Brachaeluridae
- Brachaelurus waddi (Bloch & Scheider, 1801) – blind shark
- Orectolobidae[a]
- Orectolobus ornatus (De Vis, 1883) – banded wobbegong
- Orectolobus maculatus (Bonnaterre, 1788) – spotted wobbegong
- Orectolobus tentaculatus (Sutorectus tentaculatus) (Peters, 1864) – cobbler carpetshark
- Orectolobus species (Orectolobus hutchinsi Last, Chidlow & Compagno, 2006) – western wobbegong
- Scyliorhinidae
- Asymbolus species – saddled catshark
- Aulohalaelurus labiosus (Waite, 1905) – black-spotted catshark
- Cephaloscyllium laticeps (Dümeril, 1853) – draughtboard shark
- Stegastomatidae
- Stegostoma fasciatum (Hermann, 1783) – leopard shark
- Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 – whale shark[b]
- Alopiidae
- Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788) – thresher shark
- Odontaspididae
- Carcharias taurus (Rafinesque, 1810) – grey nurse shark
- Cetorhinidae
- Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) – basking shark
- Lamnidae
- Carcharodon carcharias (Linnaeus, 1758) – white pointer
- Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque, 1809 – shortfin mako
- Triakidae
- Furgaleus macki (Whitley, 1943) – whiskery shark
- Hypogaleus hyugaensis (Miyosi, 1939) – pencil shark
- Mustelus antarcticus (Günther, 1870) – gummy shark
- Galeorhinus galeus (Linnaeus, 1758) – school shark
- Carcharhinidae
- Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther, 1870) – bronze whaler
- Carcharhinus obscurus (Lesueur, 1818) – black whaler
- Carcharhinus plumbeus (Nardo, 1827) – sandbar shark
- Carcharhinus leucas (Valenciennes, 1839) – bull shark
- Carcharhinus brevipinna (Müller & Henle, 1839) – long-nosed grey shark
- Carcharhinus longimanus (Poey, 1861) – oceanic whitetip shark
- Prionace glauca (Linnaeus, 1758) – blue shark
- Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron and Lesueur, 1822) – tiger shark
- Negaprion acutidens (Rüppell, 1837) – lemon shark
- Sphyrnidae
- Sphyrna zygaena (Linnaeus, 1758) – smooth hammerhead
- Sphyrna lewini (Griffith & Smith, 1834) – scalloped hammerhead
- Pristiophoridae
- Pristiophorus cirratus (Latham, 1794) – common sawshark
- Squatinidae
- Squatina australis Regan, 1906 – angelshark
Rays[edit]
Superorder Batoidea.
- Rhinobatidae[c]
- Aptychotrema vincentiana (Haacke, 1885) – southern shovelnose ray
- Trygonorrhina fasciata Müller and Henle, – fiddler ray
- Rhynchobatidae
- Rhynchobatus djiddensis (Forsskål, 1775) – white-spotted shovelnose ray
- Narcinidae
- Narcine westraliensis McKay, 1966 – Tasmanian numbfish[d]
- Hypnidae
- Hypnos monopterygium (Shaw and Nodder, 1795) – numbfish
- Dasyatidae
- Dasyatis brevicaudata (Hutton, 1875) – smooth stingray
- Dasyatis thetidis Waite, 1899 – black stingray
- Dasyatis kuhlii (Müller and Henle, 1841) – blue-spotted stingray
- Myliobatidae
- Myliobatis australis Macleay, 1881 – eagle ray
- Rajidae
- Raja whitleyi Iredale, 1938 – Whitley's skate
- Raja lemprieri Richardson, 1845 (Dentiraja lemprieri)– thornback skate
- Urolophidae
- Urolophus cruciatus (Lacépède, 1804) – banded stingaree
- Urolophus gigas – spotted stingaree
- Urolophus species – Sinclair's stingaree
- Urolophus circularis McKay, 1966 – circular stingaree
- Urolophus paucimaculatus Dixon, 1969 – sparsely-spotted stingaree
- Urolophus testaceus (Trygonoptera testacea) (Müller & Henle, 1841) – common stingaree
- Urolophus mucosus Whitley, 1939 – western stingaree
- Trygonoptera ovalis Last and Gomon, 1987 – striped stingaree
- Trygonoptera personata Last and Gomon, 1987 – masked stingaree
- Mobulidae
- Manta birostris (Donndorff, 1798) – manta ray
Holocephali[edit]
Subclass Holocephali.
- Callorhynchidae
- Callorhinchus milii (Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1823) – elephant fish
Notes[edit]
- ^ Temperate wobbegong species published subsequent to Hutchins' list include: floral banded, Orectolobus floridus Last & Chidlow, 2008; and dwarf spotted Orectolobus parvimaculatus Last & Chidlow, 2008. The gulf wobbegong Orectolobus halei Whitley, 1940 was considered conspecific with O. ornatus until 2006.
- ^ Also classified in its own Family, Rhincodontidae.
- ^ Aptychotrema and Trygonorrhina, along with Zapteryx, have been split from the Rhinobatidae into a separate family Trygonorrhinidae.
- ^ Hutchins lists Narcine westraliensis as "Tasmanian numbfish", but does not have Narcine tasmaniensis. Compare the species listed at Narcine.