South Seas Demoiselle, Chrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale 1906)
Other Names: Fiji Blue Devil Damselfish, Fiji Damsel, South Seas Devil, South Seas Devil Damselfish
A South Seas Demoiselle, Chrysiptera taupou, at Ra, Fiji, November 2017. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist. License: CC By Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
An iridescent blue damselfish with a yellow lower surface, anal, caudal and pelvic fins (and often a yellow dorsal fin), a black stripe from the snout through the eye, irregular rows of pale dots on the sides, and a black spot at the rear of the dorsal fin followed by a pale saddle on the upper part of the caudal peduncle.
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Bray, D.J. 2018, Chrysiptera taupou in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/344
South Seas Demoiselle, Chrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale 1906)
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Distribution |
Northern Great Barrier Reef and reefs in the Coral Sea, to Moreton Bay, Queensland; also Middleton and Elizabeth reefs in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in southern Oceania (east to Samoa). Inhabits coral reef lagoons and offshore reefs in depths to 10 m. |
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Species Citation |
Abudefduf taupou Jordan & Seale 1906, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries (U.S.) for 1905 25: 288, fig. 3, pl. 43. Type locality: Apia, Samoa Islands. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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South Seas Demoiselle, Chrysiptera taupou (Jordan & Seale 1906)
References
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Hoey, A.S., Pratchett, M.S., Johansen, J. and Hoey, J. 2014. Marine ecological survey of Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs, Lord Howe Commonwealth Marine Reserve. Final report produced for the Department of the Environment. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville QLD, 101 pp Available online
Johnson, J.W. 1999. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 43(2): 709-762
Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3)
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
Kuiter, R.H. 1992. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. pls.
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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.
