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Cephalopholis sexmaculata

Sixspot Grouper

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Sixspot Grouper, Cave Grouper, Six-barred Gouper, Blood Sea-Bass, Freckled Rockcod, Six-banded Grouper; German Sechsstreifen-Zackenbarsch; French Vielle à Six Taches

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Vāelo (TS), Vāero (TW), Lalī Tua (PK); Other Polynesian - Rari (TAH), Tukorokoro (TUA)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Marquesas; n. to s.Japan; s. to Tahiti

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; N.Group (TN, PK); Marine, near-shore, deepbottom

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: 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

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
+			P

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

Cephalopholis sexmaculata (Rüppell, 1830)
SYNONYMS: Cephalopholis sexmaculatus [valid of some authors]; Serranus sexmaculatus [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; SERRANIDAE, Epinephelinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Tongareva: specimen deep-water trials late 1970s, photo Dashwood, ID confirmed Randall (Sims88); 3 specimens (T&P85). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 3/2004, Peleo Nimeti at 170local-fathoms (250m), ID K.Salisbury & G.McCormack

References:
text p.105 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 31b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.103 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.183 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 25-03 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 26-05 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

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

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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