Yellowfin Tripodfish, Tripodichthys angustifrons (Hollard 1854)


Other Names: Blackflag Tripodfish, Black-flag Tripodfish, Silver Leatherjacket, Tripod-fish, Tripod-fish, Yellow-fin Tripod-fish

A Yellowfin Tripodfish, Tripodichthys angustifrons. Source: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial


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Bray, D.J. 2018, Tripodichthys angustifrons in Fishes of Australia, accessed 26 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/890

Yellowfin Tripodfish, Tripodichthys angustifrons (Hollard 1854)

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Distribution

Northern Australia, from Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, and Darwin, Northern Territory, to Byron Bay, New South Wales. Elsewhere the species occurs in Indonesia.

Species Citation

Triacanthus angustifrons Hollard 1854, Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 4 4(1): 45, pl. 2(2). Type locality: Mer des Indes.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2018

Resources

Australian Faunal Directory

Yellowfin Tripodfish, Tripodichthys angustifrons (Hollard 1854)

References


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

Grant, E.M. 1991. Fishes of Australia. Brisbane : EM Grant Pty Ltd 480 pp. 

Hollard, H.L. 1854. Monographie des balistides Deuxième partie (1). Étude des genres et des espèces. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 4 4(1): 39-72 

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) 

Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293 

Larson, H.K. & Williams, R.S. 1997. Darwin Harbour fishes: a survey and annotated checklist. pp. 339-380 in Hanley, H.R., Caswell, G., Megirian, D. & Larson, H.K. (eds). The Marine Flora and Fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia. Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biology Workshop. Darwin : Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 466 pp. 

Matsuura, K. 2001. Triacanthodidae, Triacanthidae, Balistidae. pp. 3902-3928 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. 

Ogilby, J.D. 1910. On new or insufficiently described fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 23(1): 1-55 (as Triacanthus falcanalis)

Russell, B.C. 1983. Annotated checklist of the coral reef fishes in the Capricorn-Bunker group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Special Publication Series 1: 1-184 figs 1-2 

Tyler, J.C. 1968. A monograph on plectognath fishes of the superfamily Triacanthoidea. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 16: 1-364 figs 1-209

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37464007

Depth:0-43 m

Max Size:20 cm TL

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