Species Gomphosus caeruleus Lacépède, 1801

Museums

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• Gomphosus caeruleus Lacépède, B.G. 1801. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : chez Plassan Vol. 3 558 pp. 34 pls. [100, 101, pl. 5 (fig. 1)].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP B-2134-B-2135 skins, Mauritius; MNHP B-8237, Mauritius.

  Type locality references:

  Bauchot, M.-L. 1963. Catalogue critique des types de poissons du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. I. Famille des Labridae. Publications du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 20: 1-113 [42] (no locality specified in original description).
• Gomphosus melanotus Bleeker, P. 1855. Vierde bijdrage tot de kennis der ichthyologische fauna van de Kokos-eilanden. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 8: 445-460 [457].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH 6638, Cocos-Keeling Islands (as Kokos-eilanden).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Parenti, P. & Randall, J.E. 2000. An annotated checklist of the species of the labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J.L.B. Smith Institute, Grahamstown 68: 1-97 [18]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gomphosus varius Lacépède, 1801. —
  Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S .J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., Skepper, C.L., Gilligan, J.J., Allen, G.R., Choat, H.J. & Ayling, A.M. 2014. Fishes of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: new records, community composition and biogeographic significance. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 203–219 [215]

Introduction

The precise distribution of this species is unclear. Randall & Parenti (2000) and Allen & Erdmann (2012) record the species from the Indian Ocean, with the related Gomphorus varius found from the western to central Pacific. Hobbs et al (2014) record the species from both Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island. Kuiter (2010) recorded G. varius as extending to Christmas Island. We include the species here based on the synonymy provided by Randall & Parenti (2000).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, Indian Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef.

Extra Ecological Information

1-35 m.

General References

Bernardi, G., Bucciarelli, G., Costagliola, D., Robertson, D.R. & Heiser, J.B. 2004. Evolution of coral reef fish Thalassoma spp. (Labridae). 1. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography. Marine Biology, Berlin 144: 369-375, 405

Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S.J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., Skepper, C.L., Gilligan, J.J., Allen, G.R., Choat, H.J. & Ayling, A.M. 2014. Checklist and new records of Christmas Island fishes: the influence of isolation, biogeography and habitat availability on species abundance and community composition. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 184–202

Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S .J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., Skepper, C.L., Gilligan, J.J., Allen, G.R., Choat, H.J. & Ayling, A.M. 2014. Fishes of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: new records, community composition and biogeographic significance. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 203–219

Common Name References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [666] (Indian Bird Wrasse)

Kuiter, R.H. 2010. Labridae fishes: wrasses. Seaford, Victoria, Australia : Aquatic Photographics pp. 398. [210] (Indian Bird-wrasse)

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