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Cabillus tongarevae

Tongareva Goby

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Tongareva Goby

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE Maldives - n.Cooks, Hawai‘i; n. to Marshalls; s. to s.GBR; (Disjunct)

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; Marine, near-shore, lagoon - reef-slope, to 10m, on sand

KEY FEATURES: To 3cm SL. Blunt faced with very large eyes. Dorsal fins as high as body depth, with dark spots. Body pale brown with faint spots. Scan imge from Fowler paper (on file).

Cook Islands Distribution

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

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
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

Cabillus tongarevae (Fowler, 1927)
SYNONYMS: Glossogobius tongarevae [O]

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Gobioidei; GOBIIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Tongareva: Specimen BPBM 3426 Holotype, coll. S.C.Ball, 12/1924 [Fowler 1927. Bull. BPBM 38:27, fig. 4].

References:
Special Reference: Fowler 1927. Fishes of the tropical central Pacific. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus. 38: 1-32.

text p.233 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia

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