Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall 1977

A Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta, at Vatu-i-Ra, Fiji, November 2016. Source: Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall 1977
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Distribution |
One Tree Island, Capricorn Group, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland. Found elsewhere in the Western Pacific from the Philippines and eastern Indonesia to Fiji, north to the Ryukyu Islands in southern Japan, and south to the Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia. Inhabits invertebrate-rich inshore reefs to outer reef walls, and reef pinnacles, usually sheltering in caves and crevices at depths of about 25 m or more - usuallu singly or in pairs. |
Features |
Dorsal fin 9; Anal fin 9; Pectoral fin 16. |
Species Citation |
Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall, 1977, Rec. Aust. Mus. 30(17): 485, fig. 3B. |
Author |
Dianne J. Bray |
Resources |
Shy Toby, Canthigaster ocellicincta Allen & Randall 1977
References
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Allen, G.R. & Randall, J.E. 1977. Review of the sharpnose pufferfishes (subfamily Canthigasterinae) of the Indo-Pacific. Records of the Australian Museum 30(17): 475-517 figs 1-15
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Matsuura, K., Yoshino, T., 1992. First records of two sharpnose pufferfishes from Japan. Ichthyological Research 39(2): 178-180.
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Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp.
Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs.
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.
Russell, B.C. 1983. Annotated checklist of the coral reef fishes in the Capricorn-Bunker group, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Special Publication Series 1: 1-184 figs 1-2
Shao, K., Leis, J.L., Matsuura, K., Jing, L., Hardy, G. & Liu, M. 2014. Canthigaster ocellicincta. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T193723A2266671. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T193723A2266671.en. Downloaded on 09 December 2016.