Fishes of Australia
Fishes are the largest and most diverse group of vertebrate animals, with almost 32,000 valid described species (Eschmeyer & Fong 2012). This is many, many more than the combined total of all other vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals). Under the term "fishes" we includ...
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ftands:oai:ands.org.au::671422 2023-05-15T13:34:11+02:00 Fishes of Australia https://researchdata.edu.au/fishes-australia/671422 unknown Atlas of Living Australia https://researchdata.edu.au/fishes-australia/671422 ala.org.au/dr796 Atlas of Living Australia dataset ftands 2022-12-19T23:29:22Z Fishes are the largest and most diverse group of vertebrate animals, with almost 32,000 valid described species (Eschmeyer & Fong 2012). This is many, many more than the combined total of all other vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals). Under the term "fishes" we include the jawless hagfishes and lampreys. White (1790) described the first Australian fishes that were actually collected in Australia. Although some wide-ranging species that have distributions including Australia had already been described, White's eight species came from Botany Bay. Our diverse and often unique fish fauna now numbers more than 5000 species, and we're still counting. For those interested in reading more about the discovery of Australia's fishes, find a copy of Brian Saunders beautifully written and illustrated Discovery of Australia's fishes : a history of Australian ichthyology to 1930. Australia's marine environment is enormous, covering an area of about 9 million km2 with more than 36,000 km of coastline (including external territories outside Antarctica). That figure actually needs updating as Australia recently extended its maritime boundaries. Habitats range from the coral reefs and tropical estuaries of the north, to cold temperate rocky reefs along the southern coast, as well as oceanic and deep sea habitats beyond the continental slope. As a result, Australia has one of the largest and most diverse marine fish faunas in the world. Fishes not only come in a impressive array of shapes and sizes & they live in almost all aquatic environments in Australia. These include the hot desert springs, freshwater rivers, streams and lakes found on land, to mangrove swamps, coral reefs, seagrass meadows, turbulent coastal kelp forests, and the twilight zone and abyss of the deep-sea. The freshwater component of the Australian fish fauna is very small relative to freshwater fish faunas found elsewhere in the world (Merrick 2006). Although small in number however, this fauna is diverse and unique, and includes ... Dataset Antarc* Antarctica Research Data Australia (Australian National Data Service - ANDS) Botany Bay ENVELOPE(-57.892,-57.892,-63.678,-63.678) Merrick ENVELOPE(49.300,49.300,-67.700,-67.700) Saunders ENVELOPE(-45.316,-45.316,-60.700,-60.700) |
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Fishes are the largest and most diverse group of vertebrate animals, with almost 32,000 valid described species (Eschmeyer & Fong 2012). This is many, many more than the combined total of all other vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals). Under the term "fishes" we include the jawless hagfishes and lampreys. White (1790) described the first Australian fishes that were actually collected in Australia. Although some wide-ranging species that have distributions including Australia had already been described, White's eight species came from Botany Bay. Our diverse and often unique fish fauna now numbers more than 5000 species, and we're still counting. For those interested in reading more about the discovery of Australia's fishes, find a copy of Brian Saunders beautifully written and illustrated Discovery of Australia's fishes : a history of Australian ichthyology to 1930. Australia's marine environment is enormous, covering an area of about 9 million km2 with more than 36,000 km of coastline (including external territories outside Antarctica). That figure actually needs updating as Australia recently extended its maritime boundaries. Habitats range from the coral reefs and tropical estuaries of the north, to cold temperate rocky reefs along the southern coast, as well as oceanic and deep sea habitats beyond the continental slope. As a result, Australia has one of the largest and most diverse marine fish faunas in the world. Fishes not only come in a impressive array of shapes and sizes & they live in almost all aquatic environments in Australia. These include the hot desert springs, freshwater rivers, streams and lakes found on land, to mangrove swamps, coral reefs, seagrass meadows, turbulent coastal kelp forests, and the twilight zone and abyss of the deep-sea. The freshwater component of the Australian fish fauna is very small relative to freshwater fish faunas found elsewhere in the world (Merrick 2006). Although small in number however, this fauna is diverse and unique, and includes ... |
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ENVELOPE(-57.892,-57.892,-63.678,-63.678) ENVELOPE(49.300,49.300,-67.700,-67.700) ENVELOPE(-45.316,-45.316,-60.700,-60.700) |
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