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Pervagor melanocephalus

Blackheaded Filefish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Blackheaded Filefish, Black-headed Leatherjacket, Redtail Filefish; German Rotschwanz-Feilenfisch; French Poisson-lime à Queue Rouge

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE s.Africa; Indonesia - Tonga - Cooks?; n. to s.Japan; s. to Norfolk (Disjunct)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group. (RR) PLUS: Single sighting RR 25m (Sims); Marine, near-shore

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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

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Scientific Taxonomy

Pervagor melanocephalus (Bleeker, 1853)
SYNONYMS: Monacanthus melanocephalus [O]; Stephanolepis melanocephalus

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Tetraodontiformes; Tetraodontoidei; Balistoidea; MONACANTHIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field sighting in 25m depth Parekura, Avarua ID N.Sims (Sims88).

References:
text p.264 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.633 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 135-11 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 101-14 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 1058 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

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

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Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org. Copy citation to system clipboard
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