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Wālala (PK)

Wire-net Filefish

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Wire-net Filefish, Honeycomb Filefish, Honeycomb Leatherjacket; French Poisson-lime Panthère

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Wālala? (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE e.Africa - Pitcairn; n. to s.Japan; s. to New Caledonia - Rapa; e.Atlantic

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; S.Group - absent; N.Group (Suwarrow, so far); Marine, near-shore, lagoon & outer reef slope to 20m+

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Cook Islands Distribution

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

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

Cantherhines pardalis (Rüppel, 1837)
SYNONYMS: Monacanthus pardalis [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Tetraodontiformes; Tetraodontoidei; Balistoidea; MONACANTHIDAE. COMMENT: Replaced by $Cantherhines sandwichiensis@ in Hawaii.

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: absent - Randall 2005 confirmed that earlier Rarotonga records of Cantherhines pardalis were in fact Cantherhines sandwichensis; absent, 2001/10, M.Francis failed to find any Cantherhines pardalis. Pukapuka: informant reports at NBSAP meeting, 2/2004. Suwarrow: fieldspecimen+photo, 2004, Vince Kerr with ID as Cantherhines paradalis;

References:
text p.262 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 139b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.462 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
p.627 Burgess et al. (1988) Atlas of Marine Aquarium Fishes (TFH)
plate 135-03 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 102-03 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....

Data Update History (information):
zTX, 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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