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Malacanthus brevirostris

Quakerfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Quakerfish, Flagtail Blanquillo, Banded Blanquillo; German Gestreifter Torpedobarsch; French Poisson Couvreur à Court, Matajuel nez Court

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Marquesas, Hawai‘i - tropical America; n. to s.Japan; s. to Lord Howe - Australs

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group, common. (RR) PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, outer reef slope below 20m

KEY FEATURES: To 30cm

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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

Malacanthus brevirostris Guichenot, 1848
SYNONYMS: Malacanthus hoedtii

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: Chip Boyle, observation to confirm, xxxxx.

References:
text p.126 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.154 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.241 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 40-02 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 40-04 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 654 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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