Japanese Stinkfish, Calliurichthys scaber (McCulloch 1926)


Illustration of the lectotype of the Japanese Stinkfish, Calliurichthys scaber (AMS I.4079), from Lord Howe Island. Source: Fig. 3, in Fricke (2002) Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie). No. 634: 1-12. License: All rights reserved


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Japanese Stinkfish, Calliurichthys scaber (McCulloch 1926)

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Distribution

Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Kermadec Islands, northern New Zealand.

Species Citation

Callionymus (Calliurichthys) japonicus scaber McCulloch 1926, Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 5(4): 197. Type locality: Lord Howe Island. 

Author

Bray, D.J. 2019

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Japanese Stinkfish, Calliurichthys scaber (McCulloch 1926)

References


Allen, G.R., Hoese, D.F., Paxton, J.R., Randall, J.E., Russell, B.C., Starck, W.A., Talbot, F.H. & Whitley, G.P. 1976. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Lord Howe Island. Records of the Australian Museum 30(15): 365-454 figs 1-2 

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.

 Fricke, R. 1982. Nominal genera and species of dragonets (Teleostei: Callionymidae, Draconettidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 84: 53-92 

Fricke, R. 1983. Revision of the Indo-Pacific genera and species of the dragonet family Callionymidae (Teleostei). Theses Zoologicae 3: 1-774 figs 1-212 

Fricke, R. 2000. Callionymidae of New Caledonia, with remarks on related species and descriptions of 10 new species from New Caledonia, Australia, New Guinea, and Hawaii (Teleostei). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 617: 1-81 figs 1-35 

Fricke, R. 2001. Suborder Callionymoidei. pp. 3549-3573 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. 

Fricke, R. 2002. Callionymus ogilbyi, a new species of eastern Australian dragonet, with a redescription of Callionymus scaber McCulloch (Teleostei: Callionymidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 634: 1-12 

Fricke, R. 2002. Annotated checklist of the dragonet families Callionymidae and Draconettidae (Teleostei: Callionymoidei), with comments on callionymid fish classification. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 645: 1-103

McCulloch, A.R. 1926. Report on some fishes obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South and South-Western Australia. Part 5. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 5(4): 157-216 figs 1-5 pls 43-56

Struthers, C.D. 2015. 219 Family Callionymidae, pp. 1556-1559, in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. (eds) The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 4 pp. 1153-1748.

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