Red moki
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| Species: | C. spectabilis
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| Cheilodactylus spectabilis F. W. Hutton, 1872
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The New Zealand red moki or Australian banded morwong, Cheilodactylus spectabilis, is a morwong, a species of fish found off southern Australia and the North Island of New Zealand from depths to 50 m. Although traditionally included in the genus Cheilodactylus in family Cheilodactylidae, based on genetic and morphological analyses it belongs in the genus Chirodactylus in family Latridae.[1][2]
This species is territorial and remains in that territory for its lifetime, often many hundred square metres. Red moki are also quite long lived, living up to 60 years in some individuals. Its length is up to 60 cm.
References
- ^ Ludt, W.B., Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 585(1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Chirodactylus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cheilodactylus spectabilis". FishBase. September 2011 version.
- Cheilodactylus spectabilis, Integrated Taxonomic Information System, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8