Threespine Frogfish, Batrachomoeus trispinosus (Günther 1861)


Other Names: Broadbent's Frogfish, Threespine Toadfish, Three-spined Frogfish

A Threespine Frogfish. Batrachomoeus trispinosus, at Ko Doc mai, Thailand, November 2009. Source: @perigor2000 / http://www.whatsthatfish.com/. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike


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Bray, D.J. 2017, Batrachomoeus trispinosus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 30 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2836

Threespine Frogfish, Batrachomoeus trispinosus (Günther 1861)

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Distribution

Northern Australia, from Barrow Island, Westrn Australia, to Maroochydore, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, west Pacific (Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and New Guinea. Occurs in a range of habitats from intertidal areas near mangroves, estuaries, and reefs to depths of 68 m

Species Citation

Batrachus trispinosus Günther 1861, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus. 3: 169. Type locality: Singapore and Penang, Malaysia.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2017

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Threespine Frogfish, Batrachomoeus trispinosus (Günther 1861)

References


Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. 

Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls. 

Bean, B.A. & Weed, A.C. 1912. Notes on a collection of fishes from Java, made by Owen Bryant and William Palmer in 1909, with description of a new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 42: 587-611 

Blaber, S.J.M., Salini, J.P. & Brewer, D.T. 1990. A checklist of the fishes of Albatross Bay and the Embley estuary, north-eastern Gulf of Carpentaria. CSIRO Marine Laboratory. Report 210: 1-22 

Grant, E.M. 1975. Guide to Fishes. Brisbane : Queensland Government, Co-ordinator General’s Department 640 pp. 

Greenfield, D.W. 1999. Family Batrachoididae. pp. 1999-2003 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. 

Günther, A. 1861. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum Vol. 3 586 pp. 

Hutchins, J.B. 1976. A revision of the Australian frogfishes. Records of the Western Australian Museum 4(1): 3-43 figs 1-17 

Hutchins, J.B. 2003. Checklist of marine fishes of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia. pp. 453-478 in Wells, F.E., Walker, D.I., & Jones, D.S. (eds). Proceedings of the Eleventh International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum. 

Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293 

Larson, H.K. & Williams, R.S. 1997. Darwin Harbour fishes: a survey and annotated checklist. pp. 339-380 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. 

McCulloch, A.R. & Whitley, G.P. 1925. A list of the fishes recorded from Queensland waters. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(2): 125-182 (as Pseudobatrachus broadbenti)

Ogilby, J.D. 1908. Revision of the Batrachoididae of Queensland. Annals of the Queensland Museum 9(2): 43-57 (as Batrachomoeus broadbenti)

Russell, B.C. & Houston, W. 1989. Offshore fishes of the Arafura Sea. The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 6(1): 69-84 

Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls. 

Taylor, W.R. 1964. Fishes of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 4: 44-307 figs 1-68 

Whitley, G.P. 1954. New locality records for some Australian fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1952–53: 23-30 figs 1-5 (misidentified as Batrachomoeus dahli)

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37205003

Depth:0-68 m

Habitat:Reef associated, estuaries

Max Size:26 cm SL

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