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Related FAQs: The Fishes of the Cook Islands,

Coverage of families in the Cooks: Surgeons, Doctorfishes, TangsTriggerfishesHawkfishes, Wrasses

Related Articles: Introduction to Fishwatcher's Guide Series Pieces/Sections,

/Fishwatching: Adventure Travel Series

Pet-Fishing in the Cook Islands

Long Version, Pt. III

To: Pet-Fishing in the Cooks, Short Version, Longer Version: Part I, Part II, Part IV

 

 

Underwater: Invertebrates
 

Plenty of species, diversity, abundance of all major marine invertebrate phyla.

Soft and Hard Corals

Rubble washed up on beach are stony skeletons, a Lobophyton, massive colony of Goniopora in six feet of water, and an equally shallow mass of Montipora.

More invertebrates
 

Molluscs (shown a Tridacna clam, Spanish Dancer nudibranch), and one of many species of Sea Cucumber.

 

Cooks Fish Families, Species of use to aquarists
N= 547 total

AAcanthuridae of the Cooks: Surgeons, Doctorfishes, Tangs
vN=27 species/Cooks
vGood quality, numbers
vNone collected for the trade from here
vAcanthurus achilles, A. dussumieri
 

More Acanthurus Surgeon Possibilities (of 16 total)
Acanthurus lineatus, the Clown Tang; A. nigricans, the Powder Brown Surgeon; A. thompsoni with a white tail from here unlike Hawai'i, and the Manini or Convict Tang, A. triostegus, a great filamentous algae eater.

Cooks Ctenochaetus Tangs
 

Shown: A juvenile and adult-colored Chevron Tang, Ctenochaetus hawaiiensis; a Striated Tang, C. striatus, and a Kole or Yellow-Eyed Tang, C. strigosus

 

Cooks Genus Naso Tangs

N. brevirostris,  N. hexacanthus, N. vlamingii, N. lituratus, N.unicornis.

Zebrasoma in the Cooks
vZebrasoma scopas, Z. veliferum. And have Z. rostratum according to fishbase.org, but I’ve never seen it there.

On to Part IV

 





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