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Gnatholepis cauerensis

Eyebar Goby

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Eyebar Goby; French Gobie à Œil Barré

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Fr. Polynesia, Hawai‘i; n. to Taiwan; s. to New Caledonia - Rapa

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group. (RR) PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, On silty sands on reef-flats, lagoons and outer reef-slopes to 45m

KEY FEATURES: To 6cm SL. Flat-faced with bulging eyes on top. Creamy with distinctive vertical bar on cheek and over the eye bulge. 5-6 dark blotches on lower sides, alternating with larger paler blotches on upper sides. Dorsal Fins separated, clear with dark speckles.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Eye stripe is definitive within the Cook Islands.

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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

Gnatholepis cauerensis Bleeker, 1853
SYNONYMS: Acentrogobius cauerensis; Gobius cauerensis [O]; Gnatholepis anjerensis [possible senior syn.]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Gobioidei; GOBIIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field sightings, Tikioko lagoon at dusk, 3/2000, ID GM.

References:
text p.238 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 124a Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 123-08 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
Species No. p499 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

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