Yellowfin Stingfish, Minous pictus Günther 1880
Other Names: Onestick Stingfish, Spotted Stingfish
Yellowfin Stingfish, Minous pictus. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial
Summary:
In Australia, this species has previously been referred to as Minous coccineus.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2018, Minous pictus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 16 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4055
Yellowfin Stingfish, Minous pictus Günther 1880
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Distribution |
Off northern and northwestern Australia, Northwest Shelf, Western Australia, to south of Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs south of New Guinea. |
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Remarks |
Previously identified as Minous coccineus in Australia (Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 1984; Sainsbury et al. 1985). |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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Yellowfin Stingfish, Minous pictus Günther 1880
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. (as Minous coccineus)
Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. 2018. Three new species of the Indo-Pacific stingfish genus Minous (Synanceiidae: Minoinae) with redescriptions of M. trachycephalus (Bleeker 1855) and M. pictus Günther 1880. Zootaxa 4455(2): 201-257.
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. (as Minous coccineus)
