Kyphosus cornelii ( Whitley, 1944 )

Knudsen, Steen Wilhelm & Clements, Kendall D., 2013, Revision of the fish family Kyphosidae (Teleostei: Perciformes), Zootaxa 3751 (1), pp. 1-101 : 35

Kyphosus cornelii ( Whitley, 1944)

(Common name: buffalo bream)

( Figure 1 , 3 , 4, Table 3, 8–18)

Segutilum cornelii Whitley 1944: p. 27 , fig. 3 (type locality: Pelsart Island, Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia), type specimen whereabouts unknown; Whitley 1964: p. 47.

Kyphosus cornelii Scott 1971: p. 134 ; Hutchins and Swainston 1986: p. 68, fig. 345 (Cape Leeuwin to Coral Bay, Western Australia); Rimmer 1986: p. 443; Rimmer and Wiebe 1987: p. 230; Allen and Swainston 1988: p. 92, fig. 596 (Cape Leeuwin to Coral Bay, Western Australia); Masuda and Allen 1993: p. 176; Kuiter 1997: p. 202, fig. p. 203 (endemic to Western Australia); Hutchins 2001a: p. 252, table 5 (South west to North West coast off Australia); Hutchins 2001b: p. 36; Allen et al. 2003: p. 133; Hoese and Bray 2006: p. 1322 (Cape Leeuwin to Ningaloo Reef in West Australia); Knudsen and Clements 2013: p. 1 .

Figures

FIGURE 1. Museum material and freshly caught specimens of Kyphosus azureus and K. cornelii, photos by SWK unless specified otherwise, all lengths are in mm SL, scale bars equal 10 mm: A) Kyphosus azureus, USNM 39629, 155 mm, holotype of Hermosilla azurea (photo by Sandra J. Raredon, Smithsonian Institution), B) Kyphosus azureus, USNM 87547, 306 mm, holotype of Hermosilla robusta (photo by Sandra J. Raredon, Smithsonian Institution), C) Kyphosus cornelii, WAM P. 25853- 009, 196 mm, D) Kyphosus cornelii, WAM P.33451-003, 174 mm, neotype of Kyphosus cornelii.

FIGURE 3. Underwater photographs of three species of Kyphosus, photos by KDC unless specified otherwise: A) Kyphosus azureus, California (photo by Daniel Gotshall), B) Kyphosus bigibbus, Poor Knights Island, New Zealand, December 2009, C) Kyphosus bigibbus, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, July 2011, D) Kyphosus bigibbus, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, July 2011, E) Kyphosus cornelii, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, July 2011, F) Kyphosus cornelii, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, July 2011, G) Kyphosus bigibbus, near Poor Knights Island, New Zealand, December 2009, H) Kyphosus bigibbus, Rottnest Island, Western Australia, May 2011.