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Neocirrhites armatus

Flame Hawkfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Flame Hawkfish, Brilliant Red Hawkfish, Red Hawkfish; German Feuer-Korallenwächter; French Poisson-faucon Flamme

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Indonesia - Tuamotus; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group. Common. PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, outer reef-slope, shallow, in Pocillopora

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Aquarium industry since 1989.

KEY FEATURES: To 8cm SL.(RM91) [ 9cm - GBR]

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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:
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

Neocirrhites armatus Castelnau, 1873
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Cirrhitoidea; CIRRHITIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field ID C.Boyle (Sims88). Aitutaki: field ID C.Boyle (Sims88).

References:
text p.115 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 38e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.287 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.412 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 34-03 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 67-17 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

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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