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Centropyge boylei

Peppermint Angelfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Peppermint Angelfish; German Tiefsee-Zwergkaiser; French Poisson-ange Pastille de Menthe

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Cook Islands

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native, Endemic of Cooks (new species); Caught at 80-100m off RR by Charles Boyle and Richard Pyle. PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, lower outer reef-slope 50m+

KEY FEATURES: A wide-oval fish to 55mm S.L. Orange-red (including Dorsal and Ventral fins, and hind-half of Pectoral fin) with 5 white bands and white trailing edge to Dorsal and Ventral fins; white face, chin and tail.

Cook Islands Distribution

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

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

Centropyge boylei Pyle & Randall, 1992
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; POMACANTHIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: Lectotype Matavera, BPBM 35041, C.Boyle&R.Pyle; MNHN940.

References:
Special Reference: Pyle 1992 - The Peppermint Angelfish: ...n.sp. Pyle & Randall. Freshwater Mar. Aquar., v.15 (7): 16-18. Pyle & Randall 1993, A new species of ... and a rediscription of $Centropyge boylei@. Revue Fr. Aquariol., 19(4): 115-124.

plate 67-10 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM06a, 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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