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Parascorpaena picta

No‘u

Painted Scorpionfish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Painted Scorpionfish, Northern Scorpionfish

TRADITIONAL NAMES: No‘u (RR AK), No‘u Toka (MG)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE n.Australia - PNG - Indonesia - s.Japan

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group and N.Group; Marine, near-shore

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: ; Poisonous spines - very serious

Cook Islands Distribution

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

Parascorpaena picta Cuvier, 1829
SYNONYMS: Scorpaena picta; Scorpaena bynoensis; Sebastapistes bynoensis [(Richardson, 1845) in G&S85 & GVS75]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Scorpaeniformes; Scorpaenoidei; SCORPAENIDAE, Scorpaeninae. COMMENT: SciName J.E.Randall pers.comm. 3/2000, not Eschmeyer.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: photo & ID Sims as Sebastapistes bynoensis (Sims88). Aitutaki: specimen as Sebastapistes bynoensis (GVS75). Palmerston: photo 79 as Sebastapistes bynoensis (G&S85) - NB photo not same as S. strongia a syn. of S. bynoensis Schultz.

References:
p.503 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.149 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
Species No. 1006 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM04b

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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