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Species Plectorhinchus unicolor (Macleay, 1883)

Sombre Sweetlips, Arabian Sweetlips, Grey Sweetlips, Minstrel Sweetlips, Somber Blubber-lips, Somber Sweetlips, Sombre Sweet-lips, Sooty Blubber-lips

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Rottnest Island (32°00'S) to Broome (17°58'S), WA and Lizard Island, QLD (14°40'S) to Tweed River, NSW (28°10'S) and Lord Howe Island; tropical, Indo-west Pacific.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, inshore, marine, rock reef.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. [128] (as Plectorhinchus schotaf)

Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls. [82] (as Plectorhinchus schotaf)

Grant, E.M. 1991. Fishes of Australia. Brisbane : EM Grant Pty Ltd 480 pp. [201] (as Plectorhinchus schotaf)

Johnson, J.W. & Wilmer, J.W. 2015. Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus, a new species of sweetlips (Perciformes: Haemulidae) from northern Australia and the resurrection of P. unicolor (Macleay, 1883), species previously confused with P. schotaf (Forsskål, 1775). Zootaxa 3985(4): 491–522 [509]

McKay, R.J. 2001. Haemulidae. pp. 2961-2989 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, V.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 5 2791-3379 pp. [2981]

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. [195] (as Plectorhinchus schotaf)

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. [195] (as Plectorhinchus unicolor, authors excluded P. schotaf from Australia because of a colour difference in Red Sea specimens)

Whitley, G.P. 1964. A survey of Australian Ichthyology. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 89(1): 11-127 [45] (1172, as Plectorhinchus schotaf)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
08-Sep-2015 HAEMULIDAE 19-Aug-2015 MODIFIED Dr Doug Hoese
18-Dec-2012 18-Dec-2012 MODIFIED
30-Mar-2010 MODIFIED