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Chrysiptera brownriggii

Katoti

Surge Demoiselle

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Surge Demoiselle, White-banded Damselfish, Blueribbon Damsel; German Brandungs-Demoiselle; French Demoiselle de Zone de Déferlement

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Katoti (RR AK)

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

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; PLUS: S.Group and N.Group. Surf zone, reef-flat and rubble flats.; Marine, near-shore, surge areas to 12m

KEY FEATURES: To 8cm SL. Two colour morphs: blue-backed (leucopoma) form, and grey-brown (amabilis) form. BLUE-STRIPE FORM yellow with small blue spots with prominent dorsal, blue streak from snout to tail; with 1-2 black spits posteriorly; and w/wo black spotdorsal-tailbase. GREY-BROWN FORM grey-brown with broad white band mid-body and on tail-base; hind-gillcover yellow with black spot.

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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

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

Chrysiptera brownriggii (Bennett, 1828)
SYNONYMS: Chrysiptera leucopoma (Curvier, 1830); Glyphidodontops leucopomus (Cuvier, 1830); Chrysiptera amabilis (De Vis)

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; POMACENTRIDAE, Pomacentrinae. COMMENT: SciName J.E.Randall pers.comm. 3/2000, not Eschmeyer.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field ID "leucopoma phase & amabilis phase" N.Sims (Sims88). Aitutaki: field ID "leucopoma phase" N.Sims (Sims88); specimen+photo, NBSP School collection, 12/2000, G.McCormack, to BPBM with ID J.Randall as Chrysiptera brownriggii, 5/2004. Manihiki: field ID "leucopoma phase" N.Sims (Sims88). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Chrysiptera brownriggii. Suwarrow: field ID "leucopoma phase" N.Sims (Sims88 & EIA99).

References:
text p.170 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 81b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.264 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.391 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 81-09 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 62-09 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM07a, zD02, zupD07a

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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