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Chaetodon tinkeri ?n.sp.

Taputapu

Tinker's Butterflyfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Tinker's Butterflyfish, Hawaiian Butterflyfish; German Tinkers Falterfisch; French Poisson-papillon de Tinker

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Taputapu (RR MT)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Marshall Is - Hawai‘i, ?Cooks

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group, very rare. (RR) PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, outer reef-slope below 100m

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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

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

Chaetodon tinkeri ?n.sp. Schultz, 1951
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; CHAETODONTIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: Three specimens (Boyle&Pyle)

References:
text p.156 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 65f Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.346 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 62-08 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes

Data Update History (information):
zTXmx, 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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