Cyprinocirrhites polyactis (Bleeker, 1875)

Lyretail Hawkfish

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Life Science Identifier (LSID):

urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c9418d74-4928-4de8-b21e-4e9cb4ed181b

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Species presence

 Recorded In Australia
 Marine Habitats

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    Source: Australian National Fish Collection Images
    Image by: B. Hutchins, Western Australian Museum
    Rights: B. Hutchins, Western Australian Museum

Description

The Lyretail Hawkfish has numerous short filaments at the tip of each dorsal spine. It has a greatly elongated first dorsal ray (in the middle of the dorsal fin), long lower pectoral rays and a lunate caudal fin with filamentous upper an lower rays. Its colour varies from pink to brown. source: Australian Museum Factsheets

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Species Lists

RLS profile v3
Commercial_Uses: None, other than trivial captures for aquarium trade
Distribution: Indo-West Pacific, East Africa to Tonga and Japan to New Zealand.
Threats: No major threats to this species are known
IUCN_Threat_status: Not assessed
Common_Name: Lyre-tail hawkfish;Lyretail Hawkfish
Depth: (0–15 m)
Diet: Plankton, Invertebrates
Invasive: Not known to be invasive
Frequency: 0.167
Range: 364.118
Abundance: 2.25
Max_size: 150 mm

Names and sources

Accepted name Source
Cyprinocirrhites polyactis

Synonyms

Synonyms Source
Cirrhitichthys polyactis Bleeker, 1875
Cirrhitichthys polyactis Bleeker, 1875
Published in: Bleeker, P. 1875. Sur les espèces insulindiennes de la famille des cirrhitéoïdes. Verh. Akad. Amsterdam Vol. 15 pp. 1-20
Cyprinocirrhites ui Tanaka, 1917
Published in: Tanaka, S. 1917. Three new species of Japanese fishes. Zool. Mag. Tokyo Vol. 29 pp. 268-269

Common Names

Common name Source
Lyre-tail Hawkfish
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Swallowtail Hawkfish
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Lyretail Hawkfish
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Swallowtail Hawfish
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Working classification

kingdom
ANIMALIA
phylum
CHORDATA
subphylum
VERTEBRATA
suprageneric
GNATHOSTOMATA
suprageneric
PISCES
class
ACTINOPTERYGII
subphylum
EUTELEOSTEI
superorder
ACANTHOPTERYGII
order
PERCIFORMES
suborder
PERCOIDEI
family
CIRRHITIDAE
genus
Cyprinocirrhites
species
Cyprinocirrhites polyactis  Recorded in Australia

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