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. 2022, Plectorhinchus gibbosus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 23 Sep 2023, 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 sheltered 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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Etymology |
The specific name is from the Latin gibbosus (= humpbacked) in reference to the high rounded dorsal profile of this species. |
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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. 2022 |
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Brown Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus gibbosus (Lacépède 1802)
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