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Paracirrhites Nisus
''Paracirrhites'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, hawkfishes belonging to the family Cirrhitidae. These fishes are found on tropical reefs of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy ''Paracirrhites'' was described in 1874 by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker, Bleeker designated ''Grammistes forsteri'', described by the German naturalist Johann Gottlob Schneider in 1801, as the type species for his new genus in 1876. This genus appears to be a sister taxon to the genera ''Amblycirrhitus'' and '' Cirrhitus'' within the Cirrhitidae. The genus name is a compound of ''para'' meaning “near" or "similar to" and ''Cirrhites'', an alternative spelling of the type genus of the family Cirrhitidae, '' Cirrhitus''. There are three species of little known, small, largely sympatric and very similar ''Paracirrhites'' hawkfishes from Polynesia, ''P. bicolor'', ''P. nisus'' and ''P. xanthus''. These were all described by John E. Randall in 1963. It has been sugge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackside Hawkfish
The black-side hawkfish (''Paracirrhites forsteri''), freckled hawkfish or Forster's hawkfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a hawkfish belonging to the Family (biology), family Cirrhitidae. It is from the Indo-Pacific. It is occasionally found in the aquarium trade and is also of minor importance to local commercial fisheries. It grows to a fish measurement, total length of . Taxonomy The blackside hawkfish was first formally Species description, described in 1801 as ''Grammistes forsteri'' by the German people, French naturalist Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider with the Type locality (biology), type locality given as Vaitahu on Tahuata Island in the Marquesas Islands. The Specific name (zoology), specific name honours the Poland, Polish-born German naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, who was a naturalist aboard James Cook's second voyage on HMS Resolution and who described this species as "''Perca taeniatus''" in an unpublished manuscript. Description The blackside ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |