CHEILODIPTERUS MACRODON - (LACEPEDE, 1802)
Actinopterygii (Gigaclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Teleostei (Subclass) > Kurtiformes (Order) > Apogonidae (Family) > Apogoninae (Subfamily) > Cheilodipterus (Genus)
Apogon à grandes dents, Big-toothed cardinal, Big-toothed cardinal-fish, Big-toothed percelle, Eight-lined cardinalfish, Large toothed cardinalfish, Largetooth cardinalfish, Pacific tiger cardinalfish, Tiger cardinal, Tiger cardinalfish, Ottestribet kardinalfisk, Großzahn-Kardinalbarsch, Tiger-Kardinalbarsch, Pesce cardinale, Ryukyu-yarai-ischimochi, Ryukyu-yarai-ishimochi,
Description
Un des plus grands apogons aux rayures longitudinales brunes se terminant dans la base argentée de sa queue. La nageoire caudale peut être bordée de noir. La deuxième nageoire dorsale et la nageoire anale sont très grandes et toujours dressées. Sa tête a des reflets jaunes et sa bouche est armée de grandes dents en forme de crocs. Taille adulte 22cm - 25cm. Profondeur 3 - 40m.
Biologie
Souvent solitaire à l'abri sous les surplombs.
Distribution
Indo-Pacifique de la mer Rouge à la Polynésie. Présent en Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Synonymes
Apogon macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Apogon melanurus (Bleeker, 1860)
Centropomus macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Cheilodipterus heptazona (Bleeker, 1849)
Cheilodipterus lineatus (Lacepède, 1801)
Chelidopterus macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Cheliodipterus macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Paramia octolineata (Bleeker, 1872)
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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 8. Characterized by having dorsal fin rays VI-I, 9; anal fin rays II,8; pectoral fin rays 12; pelvic fin rays I, 5; pored lateral line scales 25; predorsal scales 6; circumpeduncular scales 12; large canine-like teeth on jaws; preopercular margin serrated ; body white, with nine poorly defined dark brown stripes on lateral surface of body; juveniles have a large black blotch/band on the caudal peduncle which becomes diffuse with age. Max length : 25.0 cm TL. Depth range 0 - 40 m.
Etymology
Cheilodipterus: Greek, cheilos = lip + Greek, di = two + Greek, pteryx = fin.
Ronald FRICKE, Michel KULBICKI & Laurent WANTIEZ - 2011 (link here)
Distribution
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa.
Biology
Common in outer reef slopes in 4-30 m depth; in caves and ledges of clear lagoon and seaward reefs from 0.5 to at least 40 m, generally hovering solitarily in midwater. Adults usually in pairs or small groups comprising several pairs; juveniles solitary or small groups. Feeds primarily on small fishes. Sexual maturity reached at about 8 cm.
Similar species
Adults resemble adults of :
Apogon à grandes dents, Big-toothed cardinal, Big-toothed cardinal-fish, Big-toothed percelle, Eight-lined cardinalfish, Large toothed cardinalfish, Largetooth cardinalfish, Pacific tiger cardinalfish, Tiger cardinal, Tiger cardinalfish, Ottestribet kardinalfisk, Großzahn-Kardinalbarsch, Tiger-Kardinalbarsch, Pesce cardinale, Ryukyu-yarai-ischimochi, Ryukyu-yarai-ishimochi,
Description
Un des plus grands apogons aux rayures longitudinales brunes se terminant dans la base argentée de sa queue. La nageoire caudale peut être bordée de noir. La deuxième nageoire dorsale et la nageoire anale sont très grandes et toujours dressées. Sa tête a des reflets jaunes et sa bouche est armée de grandes dents en forme de crocs. Taille adulte 22cm - 25cm. Profondeur 3 - 40m.
Biologie
Souvent solitaire à l'abri sous les surplombs.
Distribution
Indo-Pacifique de la mer Rouge à la Polynésie. Présent en Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Synonymes
Apogon macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Apogon melanurus (Bleeker, 1860)
Centropomus macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Cheilodipterus heptazona (Bleeker, 1849)
Cheilodipterus lineatus (Lacepède, 1801)
Chelidopterus macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Cheliodipterus macrodon (Lacepède, 1802)
Paramia octolineata (Bleeker, 1872)
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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 8. Characterized by having dorsal fin rays VI-I, 9; anal fin rays II,8; pectoral fin rays 12; pelvic fin rays I, 5; pored lateral line scales 25; predorsal scales 6; circumpeduncular scales 12; large canine-like teeth on jaws; preopercular margin serrated ; body white, with nine poorly defined dark brown stripes on lateral surface of body; juveniles have a large black blotch/band on the caudal peduncle which becomes diffuse with age. Max length : 25.0 cm TL. Depth range 0 - 40 m.
Etymology
Cheilodipterus: Greek, cheilos = lip + Greek, di = two + Greek, pteryx = fin.
Cheilodipterus lineatus (Lacepède [ex Commerson], 1802) – Apogon à grandes dents. – T a x o n o m y : New record from New Caledonia; previously reported as Cheilodipterus lachneri (non Klausewitz, 1959) by RIVATON et al. (1990: 24), RIVATON & RICHER DE FORGES (1990: 24) and KULBICKI et al. (1993: 28), and as Cheilodipterus macrodon by KULBICKI & WILLIAMS (1997: 15). SMNS and USNM material. FRICKE (1999: 233) treated Centropomus macrodon Lacepede [ex Commerson], 1802 in the synonymy of Cheilodipterus lineatus Lacepède [ex Commerson], 1801, but GON (1993: 30) and GON & RANDALL (2003: 32–33) believe that the latter name is unavailable as a secondary homonym of Perca lineata (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775). The latter is, however, not an independent species description, but a misidentification of Perca lineata (Linnaeus, 1758), which is now Plectorhinchus lineatus (Linnaeus, 1758). Cheilodipterus lineatus (sensu GON & RANDALL 2003: 31–32) is a synonym of Cheilodipterus arabicus (Gmelin, 1789); it is restricted to the western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. As both Cheilodipterus lineatus and Cheilodipterus macrodon were frequently used, there is no way to retain Cheilodipterus macrodon, so that the species must be named Cheilodipterus lineatus (see FRICKE 2008: 30). IRDNC material. – D i s t r i b u t i o n : NC: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, [12], 14; AU: 17. Depth: 0–40 m. Marine species.
Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces)Ronald FRICKE, Michel KULBICKI & Laurent WANTIEZ - 2011 (link here)
Distribution
Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Persian Gulf, Socotra, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Marshall Islands and Pitcairn Group, north to southern Japan, south to Western Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, Tonga and Rapa.
Biology
Common in outer reef slopes in 4-30 m depth; in caves and ledges of clear lagoon and seaward reefs from 0.5 to at least 40 m, generally hovering solitarily in midwater. Adults usually in pairs or small groups comprising several pairs; juveniles solitary or small groups. Feeds primarily on small fishes. Sexual maturity reached at about 8 cm.
Similar species
Adults resemble adults of :
- Cheilodipterus artus (Smith, 1961), but have wider stripes with darker interspace ; characterized further by pale grey color; eight red-brown stripes on side, caudal fin base whitish; dark caudal fin margins; greatest depth of body 3.1-3.8 in SL. Reported from New Caledonia.
- Cheilodipterus intermedius (Gon, 1993), Juveniles and sub-adults with large yellow area on caudal peduncle with a small black spot in its center. Distribution : Western Pacific: Japan south to Australia east to Solomon Islands. Reported from New Caledonia.
- Cheilodipterus lachneri (Klausewitz, 1959) Known only in the Red Sea, rare at the south of the Gulf of Aqaba.