Shortfin Saury, Saurida argentea Macleay 1881


Other Names: Short-finned Lizardfish

Shortfin Saury, Saurida argentea. Source: Sue Morrison / Western Australian Museum. License: All rights reserved


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Bray, D.J. 2020, Saurida argentea in Fishes of Australia, accessed 18 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/4012

Shortfin Saury, Saurida argentea Macleay 1881

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Distribution

Shark Bay, Western Australia, to at least Moreton Bay, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical west Pacific.

Species Citation

Saurida argentea Macleay 1881, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(2): 220. Type locality: Endeavour River, N Queensland.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2020

Resources

Atlas of Living Australia

Shortfin Saury, Saurida argentea Macleay 1881

References


Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp. 

Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3) 

Johnson, J.W. & Gill, A.C. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of Sweers Island, Gulf of Carpentaria. Gulf of Carpentaria Scientific Study Report. Geography Monograph Series. Brisbane: Royal Geographic Society of Queensland. pp. 239-260 

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 

Macleay, W.J. 1881. Descriptive catalogue of the fishes of Australia. Part 4. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1 6(2): 202-387 See ref at BHL

Russell, B.C. 1999. Families Synodontidae, Bathysauridae. pp. 1928-1947 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. 

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. 

Shindo, S. & Yamada, Y. 1972. Descriptions of three new species of the lizardfish genus Saurida, with a key to its Indo-Pacific species. 2 parts. UO. Japanese Society of Ichthyologists 11(11 and 12): 1-13 and 1-14 figs 1-17

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CAAB Code:37118005

Depth:1-70 m

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