Marine
Melichthys niger (Bloch, 1786)
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Balistes buniva (non Lacepède, 1803) |
synonym | Balistes fuscolineatus Seale, 1901 |
synonym | Balistes kib Montrouzier, 1857 |
synonym | Balistes kibitar Montrouzier, 1857 |
synonym | Balistes niger Bloch, 1786 |
synonym | Balistes piceus Poey, 1863 |
synonym | Balistes radula Solander, 1848 |
synonym | Balistes ringens Osbeck, 1765 |
synonym | Balistes sillone Le Danois, 1961 |
synonym | Balistes verrucosus Gronow, 1854 |
synonym | Melichthys bispinosus Gilbert, 1890 |
synonym | Melichthys buniva (non Lacepède, 1803) |
synonym | Melichthys piceus (Poey, 1863) |
synonym | Melichthys radula (Solander, 1848) |
synonym | Melichthys ringens (Osbeck, 1765) |
synonym | Melicthys niger (Bloch, 1786) |
synonym | Melicthys radula (Solander, 1848) |
🗒 Common Names
Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian |
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📚 Overview
Brief
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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Diagnostic Keys
Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 30 - 35; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 28 - 31
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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Description
A dark greenish-black triggerfish with purplish overtones. Pale blue lines along bases of soft dorsal and anal fins. Scales of rear part of body have prominent keels that form longitudinal ridges .
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Size
Max Length
50 TL (unsexed)
Size
50.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; )
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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Trophic Strategy
Cleaned by hogfish, Bodianus rufus, as observed on the coral reefs in Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles . Also cleaned by Thalassoma noronhanum observed at Fernando de Noronha Archipelago off northeastern Brazil . Microinvertiv/herbivore .
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Marine
Habitat reef-associated; marine; depth range 0 - 75 m , usually 0 - 20 m
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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Description
Remark
Found in coastal areas, including the Laccadives
Occurrence
native
Distribution
Circumtropical. Western Pacific: Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands eastward to the Tuamoto Islands. Eastern Pacific: San Diego, California, USA to Malpelo Island, Colombia . Western Atlantic: Florida, USA and Bahamas to Brazil . Absent in Gulf of Mexico . Eastern Atlantic: St. Paul"quot;s Rocks (13121), St. Helena, Ascension Island, Rolas Island, and Cape Verde . São Tome Island . Western Indian Ocean: Durban, Natal, South Africa . Uncommon in most areas but abundant around isolated oceanic islands .
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Conservation Status
IUCN Red List Category
Least Concern
Not Evaluated IUCN 2006
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
fisheries: minor commercial; aquarium: commercial; price category: medium; price reliability: very questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this family
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013).
Attributions | Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2013. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication.; http://www.fishbase.org/Country/CountrySpeciesSummary.php?c_code=356&id=966, version (12/2013). |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY_NC |
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📚 Information Listing
References
Overview > Diagnostic > Diagnostic Keys
- Myers, R.F. 1991 Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p.
Overview > Diagnostic > Description
- Myers, R.F. 1991 Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p.
Natural History > Size
- Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Marquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez 1992 Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. GuÃa de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur America. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD.
Natural History > Trophic Strategy
- Randall, J.E. 1967 Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. Miami 5: 665-847.
Habitat and Distribution > General Habitat
- Lieske, E. and R. Myers 1994 Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. Gasparini, J.L. and S.R. Floeter 2001 The shore fishes of Trindade Island, western South Atlantic. J. Nat. Hist. 35:1639-1656.
Habitat and Distribution > Distribution > Description
- Myers, R.F. 1991 Micronesian reef fishes. Second Ed. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 298 p.
Demography and Conservation > Conservation Status
- 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006.
Uses and Management > Uses
- Cervigón, F. and W. Fischer 1979 INFOPESCA. Catalogo de especies marinas de interes economico actual o potencial para America Latina. Parte 1. Atlantico centro y suroccidental. FAO/UNDP, SIC/79/1. 372 p. FAO, Rome. Miyasaka, A. 1993 A database on scientific and common names of fishes exported from Hawaii. The information was derived from the above mentioned database. A printout of the names is also available from the State of Hawaii, Department of Land and Natural Resources, 1151 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu, Hawaii.
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Animalia |
Phylum | Chordata |
Class | Actinopterygii |
Order | Tetraodontiformes |
Family | Balistidae |
Genus | Melichthys |
Species | Melichthys niger (Bloch 1786) |
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