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Plectroglyphidodon dickii

Katoti

Dick's Damsel

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Dick's Damsel, Narrow-bar Damsel, Blackbar Devil; German Dicks Riffbarsch; French Demoiselle à Barre Noire, Demoiselle de Dick

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Katoti (AK); Other Polynesian - Atoti (TAH)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotus; n. to s.Japan; s. to Norfolk

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group and N.Group. PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, outer reef-slope to 10m, with branching corals

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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: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
	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

Plectroglyphidodon dickii (Liénard, 1839)
SYNONYMS: Abudefduf dicki; Abudefduf dickii; Glyphisodon dickii [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; POMACENTRIDAE, Pomacentrinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field ID N.Sims (Sims88). Aitutaki: field ID N.Sims (Sims88). Palmerston: Photo49 (G&S85). Manihiki: A958-6specimen, as Abudefduf dicki [sic] (B&M74). Suwarrow: field ID N.Sims (Sims EIA99).

References:
text p.172 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 83e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.273 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.395 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 77-07 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 66-01 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. p392 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

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

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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