Highfin Velvetfish, Cocotropus altipinnis Waite 1903
Highfin Velvetfish, Cocotropus altipinnis. Source: E.R. Waite, 1903 - Additions to the fish-fauna of Lord Howe Island, No. 3. License: Copyright expired
Summary:
A red velvetfish with a distinct pale spot on the body below the spinous dorsal fin, and orange pectoral fins with the lower margin paler and crossed by some red bars.
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Bray, D.J. 2023, Cocotropus altipinnis in Fishes of Australia, accessed 21 Sep 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1743
Highfin Velvetfish, Cocotropus altipinnis Waite 1903
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Distribution |
Known only from Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin XIII,10 (last ray simple); Anal fin I,8-9; Pectoral fin 13 ; Pelvic fin I,3; Gill rakers 0 + 10 = 10; Vertebrae 28. Preopercular spines 5; upper jaw relatively short, shorter than length of lachrimal, 10-11% SL; a stubby fleshy papilla or cirrus near rear end of maxilla; papillae present on outer edge of lower jaw; anterior tip of isthmus reaching level of 5th sensory pore on lower jaw. Dorsal fin originating before anterior margin of eye, anterior spines robust, elongated. |
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Etymology |
The specific name altipinnis is from the Latin alti- (= elongate), and pinnis (= fin), presumably in reference to the tall anterior dorsal-fin spines. |
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Species Citation |
Cocotropus altipinnis Waite 1903, Records of the Australian Museum 5(1): 41, 44, pl. 5 (fig.2). Type locality: Lord Howe Island. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2023 |
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Highfin Velvetfish, Cocotropus altipinnis Waite 1903
References
Allen, G.R., Hoese, D.F., Paxton, J.R., Randall, J.E., Russell, B.C., Starck, W.A., Talbot, F.H. & Whitley, G.P. 1976. Annotated checklist of the fishes of Lord Howe Island. Records of the Australian Museum 30(15): 365-454 figs 1-2
Francis, M. 2022. Checklist of the coastal fishes of Lord Howe, Norfolk and Kermadec islands December 2022. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21563766.v2
Fricke, R. 2004. Cocotropus richeri, a new species of velvetfish (Teleostei: Aploactinidae) from Lifou, Loyalty Islands. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Ser. A, No. 660: 1-7. See ref online
Imamura, H. & Shinohara, G. 2003. Cocotropus keramaensis, a new species of the family Aploactinidae (Teleostei) from the Kerama Islands, southern Japan. Ichthyological Research 50(3): 233-238.
Johnson, J.W. 2004. Two new species and two new records of aploactinid fishes (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes) from Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(2): 179-188 https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1421
Poss, S.G. 1999. Families Scorpaenidae, Caracanthidae, Aploactinidae. pp. 2291-2358 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790. (Incorrectly recorded Cocotropus altipinnis from the Kermadec Islands)
Poss, S.G. & Allen, G.R. 1987. New Australian fishes. Part 18. A new species of Cocotropus (Aploactinidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 48(1): 79-82 See ref at BHL
Poss, S.G. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 1978. Two new Australian velvetfishes, genus Paraploactis (Scorpaeniformes : Aploactinidae) with a revision of the genus and comments on the genera and species of the Aploactinidae. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 41(18): 401-426 figs 1-14 See ref at BHL
Waite, E.R. 1903. Additions to the fish-fauna of Lord Howe Island, No. 3. Records of the Australian Museum 5(1): 20-45, figs 1-2, pls. 3-5. https://doi.org/0.3853/j.0067-1975.5.1903.1027
Whitley, G.P. 1933. Studies in Ichthyology No. 7. Records of the Australian Museum 19(1): 60-112 figs 1-4 pls 11-15 https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.19.1933.691 (as Insopiscis altipinnis)
