Australian Half-banded Seaperch

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 161 records
February: 134 records
March: 129 records
April: 146 records
May: 113 records
June: 141 records
July: 107 records
August: 117 records
September: 136 records
October: 142 records
November: 148 records
December: 133 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–75 m · Deepest record: 106 m

0–10 m: 9 records
10–20 m: 9 records
20–30 m: 0 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 3 records
50–60 m: 2 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 5 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 15–24 °C

14–16 °C: 8 records
16–18 °C: 1 records
18–20 °C: 8 records
20–22 °C: 37 records
22–24 °C: 9 records

Photos

(c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Bryce Watts-Parker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) neilfws, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Rosie Steinberg, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) neilfws, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Australian Half-banded Seaperch, Halfbanded Seaperch, Half-banded Sea Perch, McCulloch's Sea Perch

Names in 1 more languages

Simplified Chinese: 馬氏織鮨, 马氏织鮨

Other scientific names: Ellerkeldia maccullochi, Ellerkeldia mcculloch

Similar species

Banded Seaperch
Hypoplectrodes nigroruber
Black-banded Seaperch
Hypoplectrodes annulatus
Redbanded Perch
Hypoplectrodes huntii
Jameson's Sea-perch
Hypoplectrodes jamesoni
Hypoplectrodes semicinctum
Hypoplectrodes cardinalis

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
4,075 open-data records from 1898 to 2023.
Species data updated November 3, 2026.