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Stegastes lividus

Bluntsnout Gregory

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Bluntsnout Gregory, Bluntsnout Gregory, Blunt-snout Gregory, Farmerfish; German Stumpfschnauzen-Gregory; French Grégoire à Museau Émoussé

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Katoti (TS TW)

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

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; N.Group. PLUS: Very cf. S.nigricans, probably in N.Group.; Marine, near-shore

Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN

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

Stegastes lividus (Forster, 1801)
SYNONYMS: Chaetodon lividus [O]; Eupomacentrus lividus; Pomacentrus lividus

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

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
None Recorded.

References:
text p.175 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 87g Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.284 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.404 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 88-03 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 66-13 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 721 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTXmx, 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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