- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- PERCIFORMES
- PINGUIPEDIDAE
- Parapercis
- alboguttata
Bluenose Grubfish, Parapercis alboguttata (Günther 1872)
Other Names: Bluenose Sandperch, Blue-nosed Grubfish, Whitespot Sandsmelt
A Bluenose Grubfish, Parapercis alboguttata, from the Hengchun market, Taiwan. Source: Ho, Hsuan-Ching / National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Taiwan. License: All rights reserved
Summary:
A pale reddish grubfish becoming whitish below, with a pale blue snout with diagonal yellow lines, and two rows of indistinct pale red blotches along the side ending in two distinct dark red spots on the tail base.
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2024, Parapercis alboguttata in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Sep 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/2935
Bluenose Grubfish, Parapercis alboguttata (Günther 1872)
More Info
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Distribution |
Off the northwest shelf, Western Australia, to the Arafura Sea, Northern Territory. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific, including the Arabian Gulf, South China Sea, Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. |
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Features |
Dorsal fin V, 22; Anal fin I,18-19. |
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Fisheries |
Taken as incidental bycatch in commercial trawls. |
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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin albus (= white) and guttata (= spotted), presumably in reference to the "series of five small pearl-coloured spots on each side of the back, along the base of the dorsal fin." |
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Species Citation |
Percis alboguttata Günther 1872, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 10(60): 424. Type locality: Misool (as Misol) Island, Indonesia. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Resources |
Bluenose Grubfish, Parapercis alboguttata (Günther 1872)
References
Allen, G.R. 1997. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. 106 pls.
Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls.
Cantwell, G.E. 1964. A revision of the genus Parapercis, family Mugiloididae. Pacific Science 18(3): 239-280 https://biostor.org/reference/2
Gloerfelt-Tarp, T. & Kailola, P.J. 1984. Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwest Australia. Jakarta : Dir. Gen. Fish. (Indonesia), German Tech. Coop., Aust. Dev. Ass. Bur. 406 pp.
Günther, A. 1872. On some new species of reptiles and fishes collected by J. Brenchley, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 10(60): 418-426 See ref at BHL
Günther, A. 1873. Reptiles and Fishes of the South Sea Islands, in Brenchley, J.L. Jottings during the cruise of H. M. S. Curaçao among the South Sea Islands in 1865. 1-487, Pls. 1-59. See ref at BHL
Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293
Randall, J.E. 2001. Pinguipedidae. pp. 3501-3510 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. 6 pp. 3381-4218.
Sainsbury, K.J., Kailola, P.J. & Leyland, G.G. 1984. Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia. Canberra : Fisheries Information Service 375 pp. figs & pls.
