Smalltooth Jobfish, Aphareus furca (Lacépède 1801)
Other Names: Blue Smalltooth Jobfish, Fork-tailed Snapper Fish, Small Toothed Jobfish, Small-tooth Jobfish, Smalltoothed Jobfish, Small-toothed Jobfish, Snapper Jobbyfish
A Smalltooth Jobfish, Aphareus furca, at Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean (AUS). Source: Gerald R. Allen / FishBase. License: All rights reserved
Summary:
A silvery purplish-brown jobfish becoming silvery bluish-grey below, with dark margins on the preopercle and opercle, and whitish to yellowish-brown fins. Small juveniles have a yellow tail.
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Bray, D.J. 2020, Aphareus furca in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/545
Smalltooth Jobfish, Aphareus furca (Lacépède 1801)
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Distribution |
Recorded in Australian waters from offshore reefs of north Western Australia, and from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, to the Solitary Islands, New South Wales; also Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean, and the Lord Howe Province in the Tasman Sea. The species may also occur just north of Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific. Individuals or small groups inhabit lagoons and seaward reefs, often swimming high above reef slopes, at depths to 300 m. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin X, 10-11 (usually 11); Anal-fin rays III, 8; Pectoral fin 15-16; Gill rakers (first arch) 6-12 + 16-18 = 22-28; Lateral line scales (tubed) 71-74. Body elongate, slender; mouth large, tail large, deeply forked. Last ray of dorsal and anal fins elongate. Jaw teeth small - disappearing with age. |
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Fisheries |
A popular gamefish taken mainly with hand lines or vertical longlines. |
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Conservation |
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Similar Species |
Differs from the Rusty Jobfish, Aphareus rutilans, in colour and gill raker counts. The Rusty Jobfish is bluish-grey to mauve, pinkish or reddish with yellowish to reddish dorsal, pectoral and caudal fins, and has 49-52 gill rakers on the first gill arch (vs. 22-28 in the Smalltooth Jobfish). |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin furca (= fork), possibly in reference to the large forked tail of this species. |
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Species Citation |
Labrus furca Lacépède 1801, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons 3: 429, 477, pl. 21(1). Type locality: Mauritius (as Great Ocean). |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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Resources |
Smalltooth Jobfish, Aphareus furca (Lacépède 1801)
References
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