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Thalassoma quinquevittatum

Fivestripe Wrasse

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Fivestripe Wrasse, Fivestripe Surge Wrasse; German Rotstreifen-Junker; French Girelle Paon à Raies Rouges

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Pātakotako (TS TW)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Tuamotus, Hawai‘i; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; N.Group. (MH, SW) PLUS: Photos MH and SW (Sims); Marine, near-shore, lagoon and outer reef-slope Shallow

KEY FEATURES: To 16cm SL. TP (male) head pink-purple; eye with 4 green radiating lines horizontally & above; below the eye one large green arched-stripe. Body colour green-blue (± yellow blush), upper-half with two pink-purple stripes ±joined ladder-like. IP (female) similar, head red-pink not purple.

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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				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

Thalassoma quinquevittatum (Lay & Bennett, 1839)
SYNONYMS: Scarus quinquevittatus [O]; Thalassoma quinquevittatus [alt. spelling]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Labroidei; LABRIDAE, Julidini

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Mangaia: Teruapuºi, Keia District, reef-pool 0-2m, CAS73939/ in reef-pool 2m, CAS73093 (DSM58). Manihiki: A685-1specimen (B&M74); Photo lagoon ID N.Sims, confirmed J.E.Randall (Sims88). Suwarrow: Photo 3m depth outer reef-slope ID N.Sims, confirmed J.E.Randall (Sims88 & EIA99).

References:
text p.190 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 103a Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.339 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.467 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 103-11 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 79-09 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 785 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

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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