Genus Parapercis Bleeker, 1863

Museums

Regional Maps

• Parapercis Bleeker, P. 1863. Onzième notice sur la faune ichthyologique de l'île de Ternate. Nederlandsch Tijdschrift voor de Dierkunde 1: 228-238 [236].

  Type species:

   Sciaena cylindrica Bloch, 1792 by monotypy.

 

Introduction

Parapercis nigrodorsalis Johnson, Struthers & Worthington Wilmer, 2014 and P. gilliesii (Hutton, 1879) occur on the Norfolk Ridge and are likely to occur in the Norfolk Island Territory.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PINGUIPEDIDAE: Parapercis hexophtalma (Cuvier, 1829) [not found tropical in Australia, but known from Cocos (Keeling) Islands] — Imamura, H. & Yoshino, T. 2007. Three new species of the genus Parapercis from the western Pacific, with redescription of Parapercis hexophthalma (Perciformes: Pinquipedidae). Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science A Suppl. 1: 81-100 [85] (restricted to Indian Ocean, species split by authors into 4 geographically separated species; Australian records based on Parapercis queenslandica)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, subtropical, temperate, Indo-west-central Pacific.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory, Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands, Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

General References

Cantwell, G.E. 1964. A revision of the genus Parapercis, family Mugiloididae. Pacific Science 18(3): 239-280

Johnson, J.W. 2006. Two new species of Parapercis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae) from north-eastern Australia, and rediscovery of Parapercis colemani Randall & Francis, 1993. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 63(1): 47-56

Johnson, J.W., Struthers, C.D. & Wilmer, J.W. 2014. Parapercis nigrodorsalis (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae), a new species of sandperch from northern New Zealand and the Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea and remarks on P. binivirgata (Waite, 1904). Zootaxa 3856(4): 484–500

Johnson, J.W. & Struthers, C.D. 2015. 209. Family Pinguipedidae. pp. 1460-1463 in Roberts, C.D., Stewart, A.L. & Struthers, C.D. (eds). The Fishes of New Zealand. Wellington : Te Papa Press Vol. 4 pp. 1153-1748.

Johnson, J.W. & White, W.T. 2012. Parapercis pariomaculata (Perciformes: Pinguipedidae), a new species of sandperch from Lombok and Bali, Indonesia and remarks on the validity of P. quadrispinosa (Weber 1913). Zootaxa 3319: 57–68

 

Common Name References

Allen, G.R. & Steene, R.C. 1988. Fishes of Christmas Island Indian Ocean. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 197 pp. [130] (Weaverfishes)

Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls. [207] (Weavers)

Pollard, J. (ed.) 1980. G.P. Whitley's Handbook of Australian Fishes. North Sydney : Jack Pollard Publishing Pty Ltd 629 pp. [262] (Grubfish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
31-Jul-2018	PINGUIPEDIDAE	31-Jul-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Doug Hoese Dr Matthew Lockett
08-Oct-2015	TRACHINOIDEI	05-Jun-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)
22-Sep-2011		31-Jul-2018	MODIFIED
		31-Jul-2018	MODIFIED