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Plesiops corallicola

Bluegill Longfin

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Bluegill Longfin, Blue-spotted Longfin, Ocellated Longfin; German Blaukiemen-Mirakelbarsch; French Comète à Points Bleus

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE ne.Indian Ocean - Indonesia - Cooks; n. to Micronesia, s. to Lord Howe (not in Australia)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; N.Group only (SW - 1907 record); 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

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

Plesiops corallicola Bleeker, 1853
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; PLESIOPIDAE, Plesiopinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Suwarrow: specimen (16cm T.L.) A.G.Hobbs, ID as Plesiops nigricans Stead 1907.

References:
Special Reference: Stead, 1907 Note on a small collection of fishes from Suwarow Island. Dept. Fisheries NSW 9pp.

text p.113 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 37b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.214 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 30-08 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
Species No. 506 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
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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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