Species Siganus stellatus (Forsskål, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scarus stellatus Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones Animalium Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quæ in Itinere Orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est Materia Medica Kakirina atque Tabula Maris Rubri Geographica. Hauniæ : Mölleri 1-19, i-xxxiv, 164 pp., 1 map. [26, x] (the name is listed as Scarus stellatus on pages x and 26, but is listed at beginning of work on unnumbered page as Siganus new genus (Scarus 9 and 10), with stellatus being 10; as a result the species is sometimes listed as Siganus stellatus; see Woodland 1990).

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Siganus stellatus (Forsskål, 1775). —
  Dor, M. 1984. CLOFRES, Checklist of the Fishes of the Red Sea. Jerusalem : Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 437 pp. 2 figs. [260]

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Tropical, Indian Ocean

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Juveniles: mangrove.

Benthic, coral reef.

Extra Ecological Information

1-10 m.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. [1013]

Kuiter, R.H. & Debelius, H. 2001. Surgeonfishes, Rabbitfishes and Their Relatives. A comprehensive guide to Acanthuroidei. Chorleywood, U.K. : TMC Publishing 208 pp. [174]

Woodland, D.J. 1990. Revision of the fish family Siganidae with descriptions of two new species and comments on distribution and biology. Indo-Pacific Fishes 19: 1-136 figs 1-23, 11 pls [78]

 

Common Name References

Allen, G.R., Steene, R., Human, P. & Deloach, N. 2003. Reef Fish Identification Tropical Pacific. Jacksonville, Florida : New World Publications, Inc. 457 pp. [57] (Honeycomb Rabbitfish)

Woodland, D.J. 2001. Siganidae. pp. 3627-3650 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 6 pp. 3381-4218. [3645] (FAO) (Brownspotted Spinefoot)

 

History of changes

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		14-Apr-2012	ADDED