Robust Smallmouth, Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan & Thompson 1914
A Robust Smallmouth, Nansenia ardesiaca, from about 400 metres off Northwestern Australia. Source: Dianne J. Bray / Museum Victoria. License: CC BY Attribution
Robust Smallmouth, Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan & Thompson 1914
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Distribution |
Recorded in Australian waters from off Perth to off Broome, Western Australia, and north of Cape York, Queensland to off Ulladulla, New South Wales. Found elsewhere in the tropical, Indo-west Pacific. |
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Species Citation |
Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan, 1914, Mem. Carnegie Mus. 6(4): 210, pl. 24(2). Type locality: depth 350 fathoms, Okinose, Sagami Bay, Japan. |
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Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
Robust Smallmouth, Nansenia ardesiaca Jordan & Thompson 1914
References
Hutchins, J.B. 2001. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50
Jordan, D.S. & Thompson, W.F. 1914. Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 6(4): 205-313 figs 1-87 pls 24-42
Kawaguchi, K. & Butler, J.L. 1984. Fishes of the genus Nansenia (Microstomatidae) with descriptions of seven new species. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Contributions in Science 352: 1-22 figs 1-22 PDF
Paxton, J.R., Gates, J.E., Bray, D.J. & Hoese, D.F. 2006. Microstomatidae. pp. 373-378 in Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp.
Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (eds) 1989. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces: Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp.
Paxton, J.R. & Cohen, D.M. 1999. Families Argentinidae, Microstomatidae, Bathylagidae, Opisthoproctidae. pp. 1884-1887 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 3 1397-2068pp.
