Western Blobfish, Psychrolutes occidentalis Fricke 1990
Other Names: Western Australian Sculpin
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Bray, D.J. 2021, Psychrolutes occidentalis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/1551
Western Blobfish, Psychrolutes occidentalis Fricke 1990
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Distribution |
Off Shark Bay, to the Arafura Sea, northwest of Lynedoch Shoal, Northern Territory. The species also occurs off Papua New Guinea. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin occidentalis (= western) in reference to it's distribution in Western Australia, west of the other Australian species of Psychrolutes, P. marcidus. |
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Species Citation |
Psychrolutes (Cottunculoides) occidentalis Fricke 1990, Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 36(4): 404, fig. 1. Typelocality: about 35 km east of Rowley Shoals, Western Australia [17°17´S, 119°57´E]. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2021 |
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Western Blobfish, Psychrolutes occidentalis Fricke 1990
References
Fricke, R. 1990. A new species of psychrolutid fish from Western Australia. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology 36(4): 404-409
Fricke, R., Allen, G.R., Andréfouët, S., Chen, W.-J., et al. 2014. Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of Madang District, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 820 new records. Zootaxa 3832(1): 1-247.
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
Nelson, J.S. 1999. Family Psychrolutidae. pp. 2427-2428 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.
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 (as Psychrolutes sp.)
