New Zealand Ruffe, Schedophilus huttoni (Waite 1910)
A New Zealand Ruffle, Schedophilus huttoni, from a depth of 520 metres, south of Mallacoota, Victoria. Source: David Paul / Museum Victoria. License: CC BY Attribution
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Bray, D.J. 2020, Schedophilus huttoni in Fishes of Australia, accessed 04 Dec 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/745
New Zealand Ruffe, Schedophilus huttoni (Waite 1910)
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Distribution |
Southeastern Australia from off Newcastle, New South Wales, to southwest of Cape Bridgewater, Victoria, and off Tasmania. Elsewhere the species is circumglobal in southern waters. Adults are benthopelagic near the bottom, while larvae and juveniles are pelagic in near surface waters. |
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Fisheries |
Occasionally taken as bycatch in commercial trawls. |
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Etymology |
The species is named for Captain F. W. Hutton F.R.S, curator of the Canterbury Museum, New Zealand. |
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Species Citation |
Centrolophus huttoni Waite 1910, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 42: 387. Type locality: Sumner beach, near Christchurch, New Zealand |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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New Zealand Ruffe, Schedophilus huttoni (Waite 1910)
References
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Iwamoto, T. 2015. Schedophilus huttoni. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T21113133A21914705. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T21113133A21914705.en. Downloaded on 06 November 2020.
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Last, P.R., Scott, E.O.G. & Talbot, F.H. 1983. Fishes of Tasmania. Hobart : Tasmanian Fisheries Development Authority 563 pp. figs.
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McDowall, R.M. 1994. Family Centrolophidae. pp. 832-838, figs 736-741 in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & Kuiter, R.H. (eds). The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. Adelaide : State Printer 992 pp. 810 figs.
McDowall, R.M. 2001. Centrolophidae. pp. 3767-3770 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. 6 pp. 3381-4218.
Parin, N.V. & Piotrovsky, A.S. 2004. Stromateoid fishes (suborder Stromateoidei) of the Indian Ocean (species composition, distribution, biology, and fisheries). Journal of Ichthyology 44(Suppl. 1): 33-62
Stewart, A.L., Last, P.R. & Struthers, C.D. 2015. 235 Family Centrolophidae. pp. 1648-1661 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. (eds) 2015. The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 4 pp. 1153-1748.
Waite, E.R. 1910. Notes on New Zealand fishes. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 42: 384-391 figs 37-38 See ref at BHL
