General Information

COMMON NAMES: Sevenstripe Cardinalfish, Sevenstriped Cardinalfish, Nine-banded Cardinalfish; German Siebenstreifen-Kardinal; French Apogon à Sept Lignes TRADITIONAL NAMES: ‘Ō‘ō (RR), Yōyala (PK) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Cocos - Line Islands; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, reef-flat and lagoon-shallows to 4m. Nocturnal. KEY FEATURES: To 9cm. Oval with 5 broad black stripes (including topside and belly), alternating with 4 white stripes. Central stripe varying in width ending before tail fin. The two stripes either side of the centre are straight on tailbase converging on inner tail fin. Fins clear. The name Seven-striped treats top and bottom stripes as non-stripes. SIMILAR SPECIES: Separated by tailbase pattern of converging outer stripes and central stripe without an expansion or spot.

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

Apogon novemfasciatus Cuvier, 1828
SYNONYMS: Lovamia novemfasciatus

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

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field sighting, 1m bottom, Rutaki lagoon at dusk, 3/2000, ID GMcC. Pukapuka: specimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Apogon novemfasciatus, to BPBM, ID confirmed J.Randall, 5/2004.

References:
text p.121 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 41f Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.145 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.224 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 35-02 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 35-10 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 436 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

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