Extraordinary capture of a Randall's snapper Randallichthys filamentosus in the temperate south-eastern Indian Ocean and its molecular phylogenetic relationship within the Etelinae.
The capture of a rarely encountered Randall's snapper Randallichthys filamentosus (female, 587 mm fork length) from the upper continental slope (c. 350 m) off the south coast of Western Australia (c. 34·5° S; 122·5° E) in January 2014 represents its first record from the temperate Indian Ocean and a southern range extension. This record suggests that spawning of this predominantly tropical species may probably be occurring in the eastern Indian Ocean, considering the extensive, and unlikely, distance the progeny would have otherwise travelled from its typical distribution in the western and central Pacific Ocean.
Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, P. O. Box 20, North Beach, 6920 WA, Australia.
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Fish Section, Department of Aquatic Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, 6106 WA, Australia.
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Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, P. O. Box 20, North Beach, 6920 WA, Australia.
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Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, P. O. Box 20, North Beach, 6920 WA, Australia.
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Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Fisheries, Government of Western Australia, P. O. Box 20, North Beach, 6920 WA, Australia.
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D000818:Animals; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D019156:Indian Ocean; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D010473:Perciformes / Q000145:classification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014904:Western Australia
D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV
Australia; deep-water; new record; western central Pacific