Plumbstriped Stingfish, Minous versicolor Ogilby 1910


Other Names: Black-banded Wasp-fish, Plumb-striped Stingfish, Plum-striped Stingfish, Plum-striped Wasp-fish

A Plumbstriped Stingfish, Minous versicolor. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial


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Bray, D.J. 2019, Minous versicolor in Fishes of Australia, accessed 29 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4056

Plumbstriped Stingfish, Minous versicolor Ogilby 1910

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Distribution

Shark Bay, Western Australia, to off the Clarence River, New South Wales. Elsewhere, the species occurs in New Guinea.

Species Citation

Minous versicolor Ogilby 1910, Endeavour Series No. 1 23: 85-139 [originally intended for publication in Proc. R. Soc. Qld] [111]. Type data:  Syntype(s) AM E.2736, 7 miles north-northeast of Bowen, off Cape Gloucester, QLD, 26 fathoms

Author

Bray, D.J. 2019

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Plumbstriped Stingfish, Minous versicolor Ogilby 1910

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. 

Eschmeyer, W.N., Hallacher, L.E. & Rama-Rao, K.V. 1979. The scorpionfish genus Minous (Scorpaenidae, Minoinae) including a new species from the Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41(20): 453-473 figs 1-9 

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

Johnson, J.W. 1999. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 709-762 

McCulloch, A.R. 1911. Report on the fishes obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Part 1. Zoological (Biological) Results. Endeavour 1(1): 1-87 figs 1-20 pls 1-16

Ogilby, J.D. 1910. On some new fishes from the Queensland coast. Endeavour Series No. 1 23: 85-139

Poss, S.G. 1999. Families Scorpaenidae, Caracanthidae, Aploactinidae. pp. 2291-2358 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. 

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.

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CAAB Code:37287021

Danger:Venomous spines

Depth:8-90 m

Max Size:11 cm TL

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