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Kyphosus vaigiensis

Nanūe

Lowfin Rudderfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Lowfin Rudderfish, Long-finned Drummer, Brassy Chub, Blue Sea Chub, Long-finned Drummer; German Messing-Ruderfisch; French Saupe Grise à Lignes Jaunes, alicagère Bleue

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Nanue (AK PK?), Nanuē (TS TW)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotus, Hawai‘i; n. to N.Marianas; s. to Rapa

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group common, N.Group ?uncommon. PLUS:; Marine, near-shore

KEY FEATURES: To 60cm SL. High-oval, with large symetrical tail. Dorsal with uniform height. Silvery-grey, with narrow bronze stripes. Tail and hind-Dorsal and Anal generally dark. Dorsal X-XI, 13-15; gill rakers 9-11+20-24=31-35.

SIMILAR SPECIES: See Highfin Rudderfish (Kyphosus cinerascens).

Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
			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

Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825)
SYNONYMS: Pimelepterus vaigiensis [O]

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Aitutaki: field-specimen, NBSAP School, 12/2000, ID GM. Pukapuka: informant reports at NBSAP meeting, 2/2004. Suwarrow: single sighting, ID N.Sims (Sims88 & EIA99).

References:
text p.151 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 60e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.215 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 55-10 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
Species No. 662 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

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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