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Red handfish, the Glossary

The red handfish (Thymichthys politus) is a species of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae, the handfishes.^[1]

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Brachionichthyidae
Endemic fauna of Tasmania
Marine fish of Tasmania

Actaeon Island

The Actaeon Island, part of the Actaeon Island Group, is a dolerite island and game reserve located at the southern entrance to the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Bruny Island and the mainland, that lies close to the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.

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Acteon Group

The Acteon Group (Groupe Actéon) is a rather isolated and uninhabited subgroup in the far southeast of the Tuamotu atoll group in French Polynesia.

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Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.

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Anglerfish

The anglerfish are fish of the teleost order Lophiiformes.

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Antennarioidei

Antennarioidei is a suborder of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes.

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Arctic exploration

Arctic exploration is the physical exploration of the Arctic region of the Earth.

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Benthos

Benthos, also known as benthon, is the community of organisms that live on, in, or near the bottom of a sea, river, lake, or stream, also known as the benthic zone.

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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D'Entrecasteaux Channel

The D'Entrecasteaux Channel is a body of water located between Bruny Island and the south-east of the mainland of Tasmania, Australia.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and culturally significant places.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fish measurement

Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies, for data used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fishery biology.

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Fishes of the World

Fishes of the World is a standard reference for the systematics of fishes.

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Forestier Peninsula

The Forestier Peninsula is a peninsula located in south-east Tasmania, Australia, approximately by the Arthur Highway, south-east of Hobart.

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Fortescue Bay

Fortescue Bay or Baje Dolomien is a bay in southeast Tasmania, Australia.

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Frederick Henry Bay

Frederick Henry Bay is a body of water in the southeast of Tasmania, Australia.

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Handfish

Handfish are marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae, a group which comprises five genera and 14 extant species and which is classified within the suborder Antennarioidei in the order Lophiiformes, the anglerfishes. Red handfish and Handfish are Brachionichthyidae.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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John Richardson (naturalist)

Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer.

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Magnolia Press

Magnolia Press is a New Zealand-based scientific publisher established in 2001.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Naval surgeon

A naval surgeon, or less commonly ship's doctor, is the person responsible for the health of the ship's company aboard a warship.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Polychaete

Polychaeta is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes.

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Polymorphism (biology)

In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.

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Port Arthur, Tasmania

Port Arthur is a town and former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia.

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Seaweed

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).

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Tasmania

Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.

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Threatened Species Protection Act 1995

The Threatened Species Protection Act 1995 (TSP Act), is an act of the Parliament of Tasmania that provides the statute relating to conservation of flora and fauna.

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Thymichthys

Thymichthys is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Brachionichthyidae, the handfishes. Red handfish and Thymichthys are Brachionichthyidae.

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Tubule

In biology, a tubule is a general term referring to small tube or similar type of structure.

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Type species

In zoological nomenclature, a type species (species typica) is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen (or specimens).

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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Zootaxa

Zootaxa is a peer-reviewed scientific mega journal for animal taxonomists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_handfish

Also known as Brachionichthys politus, Thymichthys politus.

Red handfish, the Glossary

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See also

Brachionichthyidae

Endemic fauna of Tasmania

Marine fish of Tasmania

References