Sandpaper Velvetfish, Adventor elongatus (Whitley 1952)
Other Names: Visitor
Sandpaper Velvetfish, Adventor elongatus. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial
Summary:
A dark-reddish chocolate-brown velvetfish, with irregular variegated paler and darker areas, particularly on the fins, small dark-brown ocelli on top of the head, nape, and around the spinous dorsal fin, and indistinct brown spots along the inner posterior margin of the gill-opening.
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Adventor elongatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2169
Sandpaper Velvetfish, Adventor elongatus (Whitley 1952)
More Info
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Distribution |
Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, to Moreton Bay, Queensland. Elsewhere the species occurs in New Guinea. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin adventor, a visitor. |
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Species Citation |
Membracidichthys (Adventor) elongatus Whitley 1952, Records of the Australian Museum 23(1): 27. Type locality: Tiflis Passage, Moreton Bay, Queensland. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Sandpaper Velvetfish, Adventor elongatus (Whitley 1952)
References
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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.
Johnson, J.W. 1999. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 709-762
Johnson, J.W. 2004. Two new species and two new records of aploactinid fishes (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(2): 179-188
Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3)
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Munro, I.S.R. 1967. The Fishes of New Guinea. Port Moresby : Dept. Agric. Stock Fish. 651 pp. 23 figs 84 pls.
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.
Poss, S.G. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 1978. Two new Australian velvetfishes, genus Paraploactis (Scorpaeniformes : Aploactinidae) with a revision of the genus and comments on the genera and species of the Aploactinidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41(18): 401-426 figs 1-14
Whitley, G.P. 1952. Two new scorpion fishes from Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 23(1): 25-28 figs 1-2 DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.23.1952.618 Open access
