General Information

COMMON NAMES: Flametail Snapper, Yellow-margined Sea-Perch, Red-&-green Snapper, Blackspot Snapper; German Schwarzschwanz-Schnapper; French Vivaneau Queue Noire, Lutjan Fauve TRADITIONAL NAMES: Tangau (RR AT MK AK PL TS TW), Morenga (MG), Tangau / Tangau < Tākiriva (MT), Ngatau (PK); Other Polynesian - Toau (TAH), Magu magu (TUA), Rorau / Manaonao / Pekau / Onau (MQA) GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotus, Hawai‘i; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; PLUS: N.Group, common in lagoons, uncommon outer slope; S.Group, uncommon.; Marine, near-shore SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Food fish KEY FEATURES: To 40cm SL.

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

Lutjanus fulvus (Forster, 1801)
SYNONYMS: Holocentrus fulvus [O]; Lutjanus vaigiensis; Lutjanus marginatus

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

Vouchers:
Cooks: Allen 1985, FAO Fish. Synop. #125 (v.6). Rarotonga: specimens Gill-net Avatiu pass. ID N.Sims (Sims88). Aitutaki: field-specimen, NBSAP School, 12/2000, ID GM; fieldsight, lagoon, 12/2000, GMcC. Manihiki: A687h-1, A770-1, as Lutjanus vaigiensis (B&M74), reID N.Sims (Sims88). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Lutjanus fulvus.

References:
Special Reference: Allen 1985, FAO Fish. Synop. Snappers of the World... #125 (v.6).

text p.137 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 50a Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.180 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.262 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 45-04 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 43-07 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM06a, zD02

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