Species Pempheris tominagai Koeda, Yoshino & Tachihara, 2014

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pempheris tominagai Koeda, K., Yoshino, T., Imai, H. & Tachihara, K. 2014. A review of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes, Pempheridae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3793(3): 301-330 [317].

  Type data:

   Holotype NSMT 106826, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt [27° 51' 29'' E; 34° 17' 41'' N].
  Paratype(s) NSMT 106827, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt [27° 51' 29'' E; 34° 17' 41'' N]; SAIAB 77935, Cap Matoopa, Seychelles; SAIAB 97406, Libanona Beach, Madagascar; SAIAB 62146, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; SAIAB 75871, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; URM 46336, Muscat, Oman; URM 46567, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; URM 46568, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt; BMNH 1982.9.9.1, Mombasa, Kenya; SMNS 21172, Saint Paul, Mauritius [21° 04' 41'' S, 55° 13' 03'' E].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Pempheris schwenkii Bleeker, 1835 [a misidentification, in part]. —
  Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. [144]
  Bray, D.J. & Paxton, J.R. 2006. Pempheridae. pp. 1275-1279 in Hoese, D.F., Bray, D.J., Paxton, J.R. & Allen, G.R. Fishes. In, Beesley, P.L. & Wells, A. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 35. Volume 35 Australia : ABRS & CSIRO Publishing Parts 1-3, 2178 pp. [1278] (in part, WA distribution)

 

Introduction

Previously misidentified on the west coast as P. schwenkii. The distributions of the two species are believed not to overlap according to Koeda et al. (2014). Randall et al. (2014) suggested that P.tominagai is endemic to the Red Sea, but did not discuss identity of Australian material, although they implied that the Australian material might be P. schwenkii. Koeda et al. (2014) treated the species as related to, but separate from P. schwenkii from the Pacific. However the type locality of P. schwenkii is Sumatra in the Indian Ocean. Randall & Bineesh (2014) recorded P. schwenkii from India, but suggested that the species might be a composite of two or more species.Randall & Victor (2015) treated the western Indian Ocean form as a distinct species Pempheris connelli Randall & Victor, 2015, Pempheris hollemani Randall & Victor, 2015 and Pempheris ternay Randall & Victor. 2015, Tentatively we retain the name here for Western Australian material until the status of these various species is resolved. There are cases where western Pacific and eastern Indian Ocean colour forms co-occur in Sumatra.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Dirk Hartog Island (26°08'S) to Cassini Island (13°56'S), WA; tropical, subtropical, Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Based on re-identified museum material (see Koeda et al 2014).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, inshore marine.

 

General References

Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls. [144] (as P. schwenkii, in part)

Koeda, K., Yoshino, T., Imai, H. & Tachihara, K. 2014. A review of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes, Pempheridae) of the Red Sea, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3793(3): 301-330 [317]

Randall, J.E., Victor, B.C., Alpermann, T.J., Bogorodsky, S.V., Mal, A.O., Satapoomin, U. & Bineesh, K.K. 2014. Rebuttal to Koeda et al. (2014) on the Red Sea fishes of the perciform genus Pempheris. Zootaxa 3887(3): 377–392

Randall, J. E. & Bineesh, K. K. 2014. Review of the fishes of the genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae) of India, with description of a new species and a neotype for P. mangula Cuvier. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 10: 20-40

Randall, J.E. & Victor, B.C. 2015. Descriptions of thirty-four new species of the fish genus Pempheris (Perciformes: Pempheridae), with a key to the species of the western Indian Ocean. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 18: 1-77 [24]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	PEMPHERIDAE	16-Jul-2014	ADDED	Dr Doug Hoese