User:Pelagic/Incubator/List of marine fish species in southern Australia

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Am leaning towards a table instead of list format, but placing the alternates here for comparison.

This will be a list of marine fish species found in the temperate coastal waters of southern Australia, part of the Temperate Australasia biogeographic realm. This draft contains only the sharks and rays for a start.

Species numbers, names and classification are those used in Sea fishes of Southern Australia (2nd edition) (Q98473068).

After having proofread half the OCR for this list, up to species 488, I just discovered that we already have List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) by PBS and Wgi (based on Evans 2008). :( However, if I go for a table here and cover just the fishes, we can show additional detail.

Species list

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Sharks

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Superorder Selachimorpha.

Rays

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Superorder Batoidea.

Holocephali

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Subclass Holocephali.

Notes

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  1. ^ Temperate wobbegong species published subsequent to Hutchins' list include: floral banded, Orectolobus floridus Last & Chidlow, 2008; and dwarf spotted Orectolobus parvimaculatus Last & Chidlow, 2008. The gulf wobbegong Orectolobus halei Whitley, 1940 was considered conspecific with O. ornatus until 2006.
  2. ^ Also classified in its own Family, Rhincodontidae.
  3. ^ Aptychotrema and Trygonorrhina, along with Zapteryx, have been split from the Rhinobatidae into a separate family Trygonorrhinidae.
  4. ^ Hutchins lists Narcine westraliensis as "Tasmanian numbfish", but does not have Narcine tasmaniensis. Compare the species listed at Narcine.