Species Parapercis hexophtalma (Cuvier, 1829)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Percis hexophtalma Cuvier, G.L. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1829. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 3 500 pp., pls 41-71. [271].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SMF, Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea; ZMB 517, Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea
  Comment: based on Ehrenberg manuscript and on Percis cylindrica (non Bloch 1792) of Rüppell 1828:pl. 5 (fig. 2).
• Percis polyophtalma Cuvier, G.L. in Cuvier, G.L. & Valenciennes, A. 1829. Histoire Naturelle des Poissons. Paris : Levrault Vol. 3 500 pp., pls 41-71. [272].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Massawa, Eritrea, Red Sea
  Comment: based on Ehrenberg manuscript.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Günther, A. 1860. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum. Catalogue of the acanthopterygian fishes in the collection of the British Museum. Squamipinnes, Cirrhitidae, Triglidae, Trachinidae, Sciaenidae, Polynemidae, Sphyraenidae, Trichiuridae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Xiphiidae. London : British Museum Vol. 2 548 pp. [239] (as Percis, possibly first reviser)
• Marshall, N.B. 1950. Fishes from the Cocos-Keeling Islands. Bulletin of the Raffles Museum 22: 166-205 pls 18-19 [192]
• 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 [82]

Generic Combinations

• Parapercis hexophtalma (Cuvier, 1829). —
  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 [414]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Percis cylindrica Bloch, 1792. —
  Rüppell, W.P.E. 1828. Atlas zu der Reise im nördlichen Afrika. Fische des Rothen Meeres. Frankfurt : H.L. Brünner Vol. 1 pp. 1-28 pls 1-7. [pl. 5]

Introduction

We follow the work of Imamura and Yoshino (2007), who separated the species previously referred to as Parapercis hexophtalma into 3 geographically separated species: P. hexophtalma from the Indian Ocean, P. pacifica from the Western Pacific and south-eastern Indian Ocean and P. queenslandica from Queensland. Some authors have recognised a single widely distributed species, P. hexophtalma. Also note that many authors misspelled the species name as hexophthalma.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, Indian Ocean, records from northern and eastern Australia based on Parapercis pacifica and P. queenslandica, but one possible record from Timor Sea (see Imamura & Yoshino 2007)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, sand bottom marine.

General References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [755] (in part)

Common Name References

FAO-FIES 2017. Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) species list. http://www.fao.org/fishery/collection/asfis/en (Speckled Sandperch)

Smith, M.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (eds) 1986. Smith's Sea Fishes. Johannesburg : Macmillan South Africa xx + 1047 pp. 144 pls. [739] (Blacktail Sandsmelt)

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