Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Aplodactylidae > Aplodactylus > Aplodactylus arctidens

Aplodactylus arctidens (Stinky groper; Southern seacarp; Sea carp; Marblefish; Marbled kelpfish; Kelpies; Keke)

Synonyms:
Language: Chinese; Mandarin Chinese; Maori

Wikipedia Abstract

The marblefish or southern seacarp, Aplodactylus arctidens, is a marblefish of the genus Aplodactylus, found in southeastern Australia, and around New Zealand, in depths down to 40 m. Their lengths are between 40 and 60 cm. Its body is grey to greenish-brown with a variable pattern of pale reticulations and markings on the body and fins.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wilson's Promontory National Park II 119279 Victoria, Australia

Prey / Diet

Gymnangium superbum[1]
Peraxilla colensoi[2]

Predators

Notorynchus cepedianus (Tiger shark)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Choanomyzus tasmaniae[4]
Mitrostoma nototheniae[5]
Proenenterum ericotylum[5]
Proenenterum isocotylum[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Importance of trophic information, simplification and aggregation error in ecosystem models, S. J. Metcalf, J. M. Dambacher, A. J. Hobday, J. M. Lyle, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 360: 25–36, 2008
♦ 2B. C. Russell (1983): The food and feeding habits of rocky reef fish of north‐eastern New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 17:2, 121-145
♦ 3Feeding ecology of two high-order predators from south-eastern Australia: the coastal broadnose and the deepwater sharpnose sevengill sharks, J. Matías Braccini, Marine Ecology Progress Series 371:273–284 (2008)
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0