Longnose Seabat, Malthopsis provocator Whitley 1961
Holotype of the Longnose Seabat, Malthopsis kobayashi, ZMUT 55048. Source: Ho, Hsuan-Ching. License: All rights reserved
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Bray, D.J. 2021, Malthopsis provocator in Fishes of Australia, accessed 08 Dec 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/3585
Longnose Seabat, Malthopsis provocator Whitley 1961
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Distribution |
Off Raine Island, Queensland, to off Wollongong, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, temperate, Indo-west Pacific. |
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Species Citation |
Malthopsis luteus provocator Whitley 1961, Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for 1958-59: 67. Type locality: Southeast from Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, depth 120-145 fathoms |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2021 |
Longnose Seabat, Malthopsis provocator Whitley 1961
References
Ho, H.-C., & Last, P.R. 2021. Review of the batfish genus Malthopsis from Australia (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. Bulletin of Marine Science 97(1): 165-218 https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2020.0037
Whitley, G.P. 1961. New records of fishes from eastern Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales for 1958-59: 66-68. See ref at BHL
