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Dendrochirus biocellatus

Ocellated Lionfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Ocellated Lionfish, Twinspot Lionfish, Twospot Turkeyfish, Ocellated Lionfish, Double-ocellated Scorpionfish; German Pfauenaugen-Zwergfeuerfisch; French Pterois Ocellé

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Mauritius - Societies; n. to Japan, south to GBR

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group - rare (Rarotonga); Marine, near-shore

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous spines - serious

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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

Pests & Hosts

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Relationship	Hosts
Venomous - spines	Homo sapiens,

Scientific Taxonomy

Dendrochirus biocellatus (Fowler, 1938)
SYNONYMS: Nemapterois biocellatus

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Scorpaeniformes; Scorpaenoidei; SCORPAENIDAE, Pteroinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: fieldspecimen+photo, 2004, outer reef, Mataora wreck in 17m, Dive Rarotonga (Ed Redman), rare, mainly seen at night, 2004 & 2005, images on website, ID as Dendrochirus biocellatus, 2005/12.

References:
text p.98 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 23b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.143 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 20-10 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 18-12 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM05b

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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