Plectorhinchus albovittatus
Giant Sweetlips
©Lyle Vail: Giant Sweetlips on the reef crest at Lizard Island
©Anne Hoggett: Plectorhinchus albovittatus on the reef crest at Dynamite Pass (Reef 14-140) near Lizard Island.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Perciformes
Family
Haemulidae
Genus
Plectorhinchus
Species
Plectorhinchus albovittatus
Colours
Distinguishing features
Distinguishing features still need to be specified.
Size
- Up to 100 cm (Length of specimen)
Depth range
- Depth range data is not yet available.
Synonyms
Similar taxa
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Animalia:
species: Plectorhinchus obscurus
is an accepted name (WORMS accessed 4 Nov 2021) but the species does not seem to be known Australia: ALA (accessed 4 Nov 2021) lists the accepted name for records of that species in Australia is P. albovittatus. Hunter et al. (2010) record P. obscurus from the Lizard island area.
Distribution
©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution
Web resources
References
- Hunter, J.A., E. Ingram, R.D. Adlard, R.A. Bray and T.H. Cribb (2010). A cryptic complex of Transversotrema species (Digenea: Transversotrematidae) on labroid, haemulid and lethrinid fishes in the Indo-West Pacific region, including the description of three new species, Zootaxa, 2652: 17-32. LIRS catalog number 1313.
- Miller, T.L. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Two new cryptogonimid genera Beluesca n. gen. and Chelediadema n. gen. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) from tropical Indo-West Pacific Haemulidae (Perciformes), Zootaxa, 1543: 45-60. LIRS catalog number 1064.
- Miller, T.L. and T.H. Cribb (2007). Coevolution of Retrovarium n. gen. (Digenea: Cryptogonimidae) in Lutjanidae and Haemulidae (Perciformes) in the Indo-west Pacific, International Journal for Parasitology, 37: 1023-1045. LIRS catalog number 1127.
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