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Lotilia graciliosa

Graceful Prawn-goby

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Graceful Prawn-goby, White-capped Prawn Goby, White-capped Goby; French Gobie Gracieux

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Fiji - Cooks; s.Japan - GBR

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore,; lagoon, reef-flat and seaward reef, over sand, to 20m

KEY FEATURES: Uniform dark-grey goby to 4cm SL, with white cap on face extending to Dorsal Fin, and paired white spots on Pectoral Fins; tail white with sub-terminal band of black spots. Lives in burrow with a prawn.

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

Lotilia graciliosa Klausewitz, XXXX
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Gobioidei; GOBIIDAE

More Information

IDENTIFICATION: 4cm SL. Dark grey with white face and dorsal side back to Dorsal fin; white spots - 2 on base of each Pectoral, 1 on 2nd Dorsal, and 1 on top of tailbase; tail white with a sub-terminal band of black spots. Lives in burrow with a prawn.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldsight, 1 only, 13m, Black Rock, 10/2001, tentative ID M.Francis.

References:
p.553 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 121-10 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 88-13 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

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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