PLECTORHINCHUS FLAVOMACULATUS - (CUVIER, 1830)
Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Haemulidae (Family) > Plectorhinchinae (Subfamily) > Plectorhinchus (Genus)
Grosse lèvre à tâches oranges, Diagramme citron, Lemonfish, Gaterin citron, Lemon sweetlip, Lemon sweetlips, Gold-spotted sweetlips, Goldspot sweetlip bream, Goldspotted sweetlips, Gold-spot blubber-lips, Netted morwong, Netted sweetlips, Rubberlip, Yellow-spotted sweetlips, Yellowspotted thicklip, Lemmetjievis, Oshare-koshôdai, Pargo limão,
Espèce ressemblante
L'adulte ressemble à Diagramma pictum (Thunger, 1792), elle diffère par la formule des nageoires et par la présence de lignes jaune-orangé sous l'oeil, d'un liseret rouge vif autour de la base de la pectorale et d'un pédoncule caudal court et large.
Biotope
Lagonnaire, affectionne le bas des récifs coralliens et les dalles à proximité des fonds sédimentaires.
Synonymes
Diagramma flavomaculatum (Cuvier, 1830)
Gaterin citronellus (Smith, 1956)
Gaterin flavomaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Plectorhynchus flavemaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Plectorhynchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Plectorinchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 13 - 14; Dorsal soft rays (total): 20-22; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7.
Lips fleshy, moderately swollen with age. Chin with 6 pores but no median pit. Total gill rakers on first gill arch 26 to 34 (11 to 14 on upper limb, 1 at corner, and 16 to 19 on lower limb). Dorsal fin with XII or XIII (mostly XIII) spines and 19 to 22 soft rays. Scales ctenoid (rough to touch). Lateral line with about 53 to 60 tubed scales.
The Goldspotted Sweetlips can be recognised by its colouration. It is grey to brown with numerous yellow to orange spots on the body, dorsal fin and anal fin. Juveniles have orange and grey-blue lines on the head and body that break into spots as a fish ages. The caudal fin usually has a dusky ventral margin.
Max length : 60.0 cm TL. Depth range 2 - 25 m.
Colour
Bluish grey, juveniles with golden or rusty orange stripes along the body that break into a reticulate pattern and later form small spots that may be lost with age or remain as lines, or lines of spots on head.
Etymology
Plectorhinchus: Greek, plektos = plaited + Greek, rhyngchos = snout.
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea south to Transkei, South Africa and east to Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to western Australia and New South Wales. Reported from New Caledonia.
Biology
Inhabits coastal waters near sheltered reefs, lagoons, and weedy areas, solitarily or in groups. Adults usually on silty reefs at moderate depths, or in current channels occasionally inshore; juveniles enter estuaries and harbors. Feeds on small fishes and crustaceans. Taken by handline and spear. Good food fish, marketed fresh, a small quantity is salted.
Grosse lèvre à tâches oranges, Diagramme citron, Lemonfish, Gaterin citron, Lemon sweetlip, Lemon sweetlips, Gold-spotted sweetlips, Goldspot sweetlip bream, Goldspotted sweetlips, Gold-spot blubber-lips, Netted morwong, Netted sweetlips, Rubberlip, Yellow-spotted sweetlips, Yellowspotted thicklip, Lemmetjievis, Oshare-koshôdai, Pargo limão,
Espèce ressemblante
L'adulte ressemble à Diagramma pictum (Thunger, 1792), elle diffère par la formule des nageoires et par la présence de lignes jaune-orangé sous l'oeil, d'un liseret rouge vif autour de la base de la pectorale et d'un pédoncule caudal court et large.
Biotope
Lagonnaire, affectionne le bas des récifs coralliens et les dalles à proximité des fonds sédimentaires.
Synonymes
Diagramma flavomaculatum (Cuvier, 1830)
Gaterin citronellus (Smith, 1956)
Gaterin flavomaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Plectorhynchus flavemaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Plectorhynchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
Plectorinchus flavomaculatus (Cuvier, 1830)
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Description
Dorsal spines (total): 13 - 14; Dorsal soft rays (total): 20-22; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7.
Lips fleshy, moderately swollen with age. Chin with 6 pores but no median pit. Total gill rakers on first gill arch 26 to 34 (11 to 14 on upper limb, 1 at corner, and 16 to 19 on lower limb). Dorsal fin with XII or XIII (mostly XIII) spines and 19 to 22 soft rays. Scales ctenoid (rough to touch). Lateral line with about 53 to 60 tubed scales.
The Goldspotted Sweetlips can be recognised by its colouration. It is grey to brown with numerous yellow to orange spots on the body, dorsal fin and anal fin. Juveniles have orange and grey-blue lines on the head and body that break into spots as a fish ages. The caudal fin usually has a dusky ventral margin.
Max length : 60.0 cm TL. Depth range 2 - 25 m.
Colour
Bluish grey, juveniles with golden or rusty orange stripes along the body that break into a reticulate pattern and later form small spots that may be lost with age or remain as lines, or lines of spots on head.
Etymology
Plectorhinchus: Greek, plektos = plaited + Greek, rhyngchos = snout.
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea south to Transkei, South Africa and east to Papua New Guinea, north to southern Japan, south to western Australia and New South Wales. Reported from New Caledonia.
Biology
Inhabits coastal waters near sheltered reefs, lagoons, and weedy areas, solitarily or in groups. Adults usually on silty reefs at moderate depths, or in current channels occasionally inshore; juveniles enter estuaries and harbors. Feeds on small fishes and crustaceans. Taken by handline and spear. Good food fish, marketed fresh, a small quantity is salted.