Species profile—Narcinops nelsoni (eastern numbfish)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) → Narcinidae (numbfishes) → Narcinops nelsoni (eastern numbfish)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes)
- Family
- Narcinidae (numbfishes)
- Scientific name
- Narcinops nelsoni (Carvalho, 2008)
- Common name
- eastern numbfish
- Type reference
- de Carvalho, M.R. (2008). New species of numbfishes from Australia, with a key to Australian electric rays of the genus Narcine Henle, 1834 (Chondrichthyes: Torpediniformes: Narcinidae). In Last, P.R., White, W.T. & Pogonoski, J.J. (eds.) Descriptions of New Australian Chondrichthyans. CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Paper no. 22.
- WildNet taxon ID
- 22618
- Synonym(s)
- Narcine sp. C
Narcine nelsoni - Conservation significant
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Dependant Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=22618.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
