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Hoplolatilus starcki

Purplehead Tilefish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Purplehead Tilefish, Blue Tilefish, Purple-headed Sand-Tilefish, Stark's Tilefish; German Pfeilchenkopf-Torpedobarsch; French Poisson Couvreur à Tête Mauve

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Indonesia - Pitcairn; n. to Mariana Is.; s. to New Caledonia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group, common. (RR) PLUS:; Marine, near-shore, Rubble on outer reef-slope to 30+m

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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:
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

Hoplolatilus starcki Randall & Dooley, 1974
TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; MALACANTHIDAE, Malacanthinae

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Cooks: Sims88 says fairly common, 90-130ft, on rubble.

References:
text p.126 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 44e Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.154 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.240 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 40-10 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 46-17 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, 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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