Brown Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacépède 1802)
Other Names: Black Sweetlip, Blubber-lip Bream, Brown Blubber-lips, Brown Sweet-lips, Dusky Sweetlips, Hairy Hotlips, Harry Hotlips, Rubber-lip Bream, Silver Grunt, Silver Javelin
A Brown Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus gibbosus, at North Solitary Island, New South Wales, July 2016. Source: Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A robust silvery-grey to brownish sweetlips with dark scale margins, a dark face, large rubbery lips, a dark narrow bar on the front of the gill cover, a black margin on the rear of the gill cover, and dark rear fins. Juveniles drift mimic dead leaves by drifting on their sides.
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Bray, D.J. 2018, Plectorhinchus gibbosus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 23 May 2022, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/455
Brown Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacépède 1802)
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Distribution |
Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, around the tropical north to Flinders Island, Tasmania; also Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean, and Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the Indo-west-central Pacific, from South Africa across south-east Asia and China to northern Australia and east to Polynesia. Inhabits reefs and estuaries in shallow coastal waters, entering mangroves and occasionally freshwaters - occurs in upper estuaries more than other species in the genus. |
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Species Citation |
Holocentrus gibbosus Lacépède 1802, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons 4: 344, 389. Type locality: unknown. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2018 |
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Brown Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacépède 1802)
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. & Steene, R.C. 1979. The Fishes of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Aust. Natl. Parks Wldlf. Ser. Spec. Publ. 2. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service 81 pp. 15 pls.
Allen, G.R., Steene, R.C. & Orchard, M. 2007. Fishes of Christmas Island. Christmas Island : Christmas Island Natural History Association 2 edn, 284 pp.
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.
Larson, H. 2012. Plectorhinchus gibbosus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T196408A2454631. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012.RLTS.T196408A2454631.en. Downloaded on 23 June 2018.
