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Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861)

Description

Common Names

  • Smooth prowfish , English , Australia
  • Smooth prowfish , English , USA
  • Tasmanian prowfish , English , Australia
  • Warty prowfish , English , Australia
  • Warty prowfish , English , USA
  • Warty prowfish , English , Global
  • 文氏疣皮丑鮋 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 文氏疣皮丑鲉 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 斑紋疣皮丑鮋 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 斑纹疣皮丑鲉 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei

    Family: Pataecidae

    Genus: Aetapcus

    Species: Aetapcus maculatus (Günther, 1861)

    Climate Zone

  • Temperate

    • Location

  • Eastern Indian Ocean: southern Australia, from Western Australia to Tasmania.

    • Biology

    Inhabits rock reef. Benthic (Ref. 75154). In shallow coastal waters, occasionally taken by anglers (Ref. 557). Neither anterolateral glandural groove nor venom gland is present (Ref. 57406).

    Habitat

    demersal