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Cheilodactylus spectabilis (Red moki; Nanua; Morwong; Carp; Brown-banded morwong; Banded morwong)

Synonyms:
Language: Chinese; Mandarin Chinese; Maori

Wikipedia Abstract

The New Zealand red moki or Australian banded morwong, Cheilodactylus spectabilis, is a morwong, a species of fish found off southern Australia and the North Island of New Zealand from depths to 50 m. Its length is up to 60 cm. This species is territorial and remains in that territory for its lifetime, often many hundred square metres. Red Moki are also quite long lived, living up to 60 years in some individuals.
View Wikipedia Record: Cheilodactylus spectabilis

Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  59 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Wilson's Promontory National Park II 119279 Victoria, Australia

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Notorynchus cepedianus (Tiger shark)[5]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Encotyllabe chironemi[6]
Genolinea anura[6]
Hemipera manteri[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
2Ontogeny of diet shifts by a microcarnivorous fish, Cheilodactylus spectabilis : relationship between feeding mechanics, microhabitat selection and growth, M. I. McCormick, Marine Biology (1998) 132: 9-20
3B. C. Russell (1983): The food and feeding habits of rocky reef fish of north‐eastern New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 17:2, 121-145
4Importance of trophic information, simplification and aggregation error in ecosystem models, S. J. Metcalf, J. M. Dambacher, A. J. Hobday, J. M. Lyle, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 360: 25–36, 2008
5Feeding ecology of two high-order predators from south-eastern Australia: the coastal broadnose and the deepwater sharpnose sevengill sharks, J. Matías Braccini, Marine Ecology Progress Series 371:273–284 (2008)
6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0