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Actinopyga mauritiana

Rori Puakatoro

Surf Redfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Surf Redfish, White-Spotted Sea Cucumber

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Rori Puakatoro (RR AT TW), Rori Pu‘ātoro (MG), Rori Kuru (MK), Rori Māngūngū (MT), Rori Kuru / Rori Pu‘ātoro (AK), Loli Puakatolo (TS), Rori (MH), Loli Louili-kula (PK)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, reef-flat outer-rim, reef-slope

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Former subsistence food

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Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group: Present
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

Actinopyga mauritiana (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
SYNONYMS: Holothuria mauritiana

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; ELEUTHEROZOA; HOLOTHUROIDEA; Aspidochirota; HOLOTHURIIDAE

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SIGNIFICANCE NOTES -
POSITIVE SIGNIFICANCE: Former subsistence food. Comments: Exported from some countries, including the Cook Islands, as a mid-grade Beche-de-mer. (mid-1990 - 8US$/kg)

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Mangaia: specimen, College, 9/2000, ID GMcC. Atiu: field-specimen, College collection, 10/2000, ID GMcC. Mauke: fieldspecimen, College, 3/2001, ID GMcC. Aitutaki: field-specimen, NBSAP School, 12/2000, ID GM. Pukapuka: fieldspecimen, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Actinopyga mauritiana.

References:
None recorded.

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

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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