Mossback Velvetfish, Paraploactis trachyderma Bleeker 1865
Other Names: Mossback
A Mossback Velvetfish, Paraploactis trachyderma, on the Gold Coast Seaway, southern Queensland, October 2015. Source: debaston / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Paraploactis trachyderma in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1770
Mossback Velvetfish, Paraploactis trachyderma Bleeker 1865
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Distribution |
Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, and Cape York to the Gold Coast, Queensland, with juveniles to at least Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, and Cape Jervis, South Australia. Elsewhere the species occurs in the south-west Pacific (New Caledonia). |
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Features |
Ventral surface of lower jaw smooth, not covered with prickles or papillose villi and with cirri almost entirely confined to outer margin. Minute cirri on snout, those in larger patch on tip of snout and across lachrymal bones about equal in size to those in smaller patch on nasal bones. Fleshy pad on isthmus with its width about 1/4 to 1/3 of length. |
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Species Citation |
Paraploactis trachyderma Bleeker 1864, Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 2: 169. Type locality: Australia. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Mossback Velvetfish, Paraploactis trachyderma Bleeker 1865
References
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Poss, S.G. 1999. Families Scorpaenidae, Caracanthidae, Aploactinidae. pp. 2291-2358 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790.
Poss, S.G. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 1978. Two new Australian velvetfishes, genus Paraploactis (Scorpaeniformes : Aploactinidae) with a revision of the genus and comments on the genera and species of the Aploactinidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41(18): 401-426 figs 1-14 See ref at BHL
Whitley, G.P. 1933. Studies in Ichthyology No. 7. Record of the Australian Museum 19(1): 60–112 figs 1–4 pls 11–15
