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Pseudobalistes fuscus

Kōkiri

Blue Triggerfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Blue Triggerfish, Yellow-spotted Triggerfish, Rippled Triggerfish, Blue-and-gold Triggerfish, Blue-lined Triggerfish, Yellow-spotted Triggerfish; German Blaustreifen-Drückerfisch; French Baliste à Rides Bleues, Baliste Jaune et Bleu

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Kōkiri (AT); Other Polynesian - Oiri Utaro (TAH)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Societies; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group, rare. (RR) PLUS: Single specimen RR 21m (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

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

Pseudobalistes fuscus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801)
SYNONYMS: Balistes fuscus [O]

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: several large specimens handlining at FAD 2km Nikao as Balistes fuscus, ID N.Sims (Sims88); 1 specimen in 21m depth Papanaha, SL 31cm, as Pseudobalistes fuscus, to BPBM ID J.E.Randall (Sims88).

References:
text p.259 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 136e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.455 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.626 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 132-06 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 100-07 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 1051 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

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

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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