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Related FAQs: The Fishes of the
Cook Islands,
Coverage of families in the Cooks: Surgeons, Doctorfishes,
Tangs, Triggerfishes, Hawkfishes,
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
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Underwater: Invertebrates
Plenty of species, diversity, abundance of all major marine
invertebrate phyla.
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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.
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More invertebrates
Molluscs (shown a Tridacna clam, Spanish Dancer nudibranch), and one of
many species of Sea Cucumber.
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Cooks Fish Families, Species of use to aquarists
N=
547 total
vN=27
species/Cooks
vGood
quality, numbers
vNone
collected for the trade from here
vAcanthurus
achilles, A. dussumieri
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Shown: A juvenile and adult-colored Chevron Tang, Ctenochaetus
hawaiiensis; a Striated Tang, C. striatus, and a Kole or
Yellow-Eyed Tang, C. strigosus
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N. brevirostris, N. hexacanthus, N. vlamingii, N. lituratus,
N.unicornis.
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Zebrasoma in the Cooks
vZebrasoma
scopas, Z. veliferum. And have Z. rostratum
according to fishbase.org, but I’ve never seen it there.
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On to Part IV
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