Overview
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Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Elongate Hardyhead, Rockingham Hardyhead, Smallmouth Hardyhead, Swan River Hardyhead
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
長身堅銀漢魚, 長體真銀漢魚, 长体真银汉鱼, 长身坚银汉鱼
Description
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Habitat
Found in inshore waters [1].
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 500 meters (0 to 1,640 feet).[2]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Class:
Osteichthyes
()
- Huxley, 1880
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
()
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
()
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
()
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
()
- Order:
Atheriniformes
()
- Family:
Atherinidae
()
- Subfamily:
Atherininae
()
- Genus:
Atherinosoma
()
- Castelnau, 1872
- Specific name:
elongata
- Scientific name: - Atherinosoma elongata (Klunzinger, 1879)
- Specific name:
elongata
- Genus:
Atherinosoma
(
- Subfamily:
Atherininae
(
- Family:
Atherinidae
(
- Order:
Atheriniformes
(
- Superorder:
Acanthopterygii
(
- Cohort:
Clupeocephala
(
- Infraclass:
Actinopteri
(
- Subclass:
Actinopterygii
(
- Class:
Osteichthyes
(
- Superclass:
Osteichthyes
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Atherina elongata • Atherina elongata Klunzinger • Atherina elongata Klunzinger, 1880 • Atherinosoma elongata • Atherinosoma elongata (Klunzinger, 1880) • Atherinosoma rockinghamensis Whitley
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Comment: Year follows Ref. 54621.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 29-Jun-1999
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Atherinosoma
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. elongata (Rockingham Hardyhead) · A. microstoma (Small-Mouth Hardyhead) · A. vorax (Western Hardyhead)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Gomon, M.F., C.J.M. Glover and R.H. Kuiter (eds) (1994). The fishes of Australia's south coast. State Print, Adelaide. 992 p.
- Klunzinger, C.B. (1880i): Die v. Müller'sche Sammlung australischer Fische in Stuttgart. - Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien (1. Abth.) 80, pp. [394]
- Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley (1989). Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- Dyer, Brian S. (from FishBase).
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:
- FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
- SysTax
- SysTax: Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 121073
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-126995
- Fishbase Species ID: 52323
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 630681
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 103518
Footnotes
- Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley (1989). Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. [back]
- Mean = -9.600 meters (-31.496 feet), Standard Deviation = 318.190 based on 15 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
