Species Fowleria vaiulae (Jordan & Seale, 1906)

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External Links

• Foa vaiulae Jordan, D.S. & Seale, A. 1906. The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional checklist of the fishes of Oceania. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries (U.S.) for 1905 25: 173-455 figs 1-111 pls 33-53 [249, fig. 43].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 51734, Apia, Upolu Island, Western Samoa.
• Fowleria abocellata Goren, M. & Karplus, I. 1980. Fowleria abocellata, a new cardinal fish from the Gulf of Elat— Red Sea (Pisces, Apogonidae). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 55(20): 231-234 1 pl. 1 fig. [232, fig. 1, pl. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype TAU 7377, Elat, Red Sea.
  Paratype(s) RMNH 28022; TAU 7378.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1997. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 557 pp. figs.

 

Generic Combinations

• Apogonichthys vaiulae (Jordan and Seale, 1906). —
  Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [147]
• Fowleria vaiulae (Jordan & Seale, 1906). —
  Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. [106]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Rowley Shoals, WA, (17º06´S) and Boot Reef (9º59´S) to One Tree Island (23º30´S), QLD; tropical, Indo-west Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cape Province (20), Christmas Island Province (23), Northwest Transition (3), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, inshore, marine, nocturnal.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. (and as Fowleria abocellata)

Allen, G.R., Steene, R.C. & Orchard, M. 2007. Fishes of Christmas Island. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 2 edn, 284 pp. [104]

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [381]

Allen, G.R. & Steene, R.C. 1988. Fishes of Christmas Island Indian Ocean. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 197 pp. [61] (as Fowleria abocellata)

Mabuchi, K., Fraser, T.H., Song, H., Azuma, Y. & Nishida, M. 2014. Revision of the systematics of the cardinalfishes (Percomorpha: Apogonidae) based on molecular analyses and comparative reevaluation of morphological characters. Zootaxa 3846(2): 151–203 [196]

Munro, I.S.R. 1961. Handbook of Australian fishes. Nos 1–42. Australian Fisheries Newsletter 15–17, 19, 20: 1-172 [published as separates 1956–1961] [147] (910, as Apogonichthys vaiulae)

Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. [200]

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. [151] (as Fowleria abocellata)

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [43] (959, as Foa vaiulae)

 

Common Name References

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. [151] (Dwarf Cardinalfish)

Seafood Services Australia 2008. Australian Fish Names Standard. http://www.fishnames.com.au/. (Dwarf Cardinalfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
09-Jan-2014	APOGONIDAE	23-Sep-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese
12-Dec-2012		23-Oct-2013	MODIFIED
		30-Mar-2010	MODIFIED