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Hypoatherina barnesi

Slender Silverside

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Slender Silverside, Barnes' Hardyhead, Barnes' Silverside; French Athérine de Barnes

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - n. Cooks; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Cooks listed Meyers (1991) PLUS: MH; Marine, near-shore

KEY FEATURES: To 7cm. Narrow-oval, round X-section, massive eye, clear fins. Olive topside, silver sides and belly.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Other silversides very similar.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW

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

Hypoatherina barnesi Schultz 1953
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Atheriniformes; Atherinoidei; ATHERINIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: Myers Comprehensive Fishes of Micronesia 1999, p.73, for n.Cooks.

References:
text p.70 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate p70d Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.59 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....

Data Update History (information):
zB02, 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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