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Seriola dumerili

Paru Komuri (PL)

Greater Amberjack

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Greater Amberjack, Allied Kingfish; French Seriole Couronnée

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Paru Komuri (PL), Palu Kōmuli (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Circumglobal, (incl. Indonesia - Marquesas, Hawai‘i; n. to s.Japan; s. to n.NZ

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, deepbottom, pelagic to 350m+, sometimes visits outer reef-slopes

KEY FEATURES: To 190cmSL, depth ~4 in SL. Bluish-green above, ± amber midside stripe, white below; ± dark stripe or cap from upper lip to 1st dorsal; Tail and other fins dark, Pelvics white front-edge. Face rounded; upper jawbone ends under eye; Pectoral shorter than head length; tail lunar-like; without scutes; grooves above and below tail base; Anal less than 70% base of 2nd Dorsal; without finlets.

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
						P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
+			P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Seriola dumerili (Risso, 1810)
SYNONYMS: Caranx dumerili [O]; Seriola purpurascens

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; CARANGIDAE, Naucratinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: Bauchot, M.L. 1987, Poissons Osseux. p891-1421. in Fischer, Bauchot & Schneider (Eds) Fiches FAO d'Identification... Zone de Pêche 37 v.2. [French pub]. Palmerston: recorded (Preston95). Tongareva: 2 specimens as Seriola purpurascens (T&P74). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Seriola dumerili.

References:
Special Reference: Bauchot, M.L. 1987, Poissons Osseux. p891-1421. in: Fischer, Bauchot & Schneider (Eds) Fiches FAO d'Identification Pour le... Zone de Pêche 37 v.2. [French pub].

text p.132 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 47c Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.166 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.252 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 155-07 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 39-16 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 396 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zB02, zM06a, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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