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Ptereleotris evides

Blackfin Dartfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Blackfin Dartfish, Twotone Dartfish, Spottail Gudgeon, Tricolor Goby; German Scherenschwanz-Torpedogrundel; French Eleotris à Trois Couleurs

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Societies; n. to s.Japan; s. to NSW - Lord Howe - Rapa

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group and N.Group. (RR, PK, SW) PLUS: Observations (Sims); Marine, near-shore, lagoon and outer reef-slope

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		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

Ptereleotris evides (Jordan & Hubbs, 1925)
SYNONYMS: Encaeura evides [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Gobioidei; MICRODESMIDAE, Ptereleotrinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: field sighting outer reef-slope ID N.Sims (Sims88). Pukapuka: field sighting lagoon ID N.Sims (Sims88). Suwarrow: field ID lagoon N.Sims (Sims88 & EIA99).

References:
text p.221 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 117f Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.416 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.568 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 119-04 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 91-12 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTXmx, 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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