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Pomacanthus xanthometopon

Blueface Angelfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Blueface Angelfish, Yellow-faced Angelfish, Yellowmask Angelfish

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Maldives - Vanuatu, Cooks; n. to s.Japan; s. to GBR

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group - very rare; N.Group - unrecorded; Marine, near-shore

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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

Pomacanthus xanthometopon Bleeker, 1853
SYNONYMS: Euxiphipops xanthometopon (Bleeker, 1853); Holacanthus xanthometopon Bleeker, 1853

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; POMACANTHIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, outer reef, south of Blackrock, ~2001, American divers, photo on thedivecentre-rarotonga.com (2005); fieldspecimen, off Rarotonga Hotel area, 2004, Sheryl John.

References:
text p.163 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 72e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.246 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 72-03 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
Species No. 706 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB05b, zM06a

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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