identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
DCDB7A653DAA522F8129DB5FC94D738E.text	DCDB7A653DAA522F8129DB5FC94D738E.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Aulacocephalus temminckii Bleeker 1855	<div><p>Aulacocephalus temminckii Bleeker, 1855</p><p>Fig. 2 B</p><p>Aulacocephalus temminckii Bleeker, 1855. — Bleeker (1855): 12 (type locality Nagasaki, Japan). — Randall et al. (1971): 173 [Natal coast (South Africa), Mauritius, Thailand, northeast China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Kermadec Islands]. — Randall (1982): 201 (Rapa, French Polynesia). — Katayama (1984): 139 (southern Japan). — Francis (1993): 160 (Eastern Australia, Norfolk Island, New Zealand, Kermadec Islands). — Goren and Dor (1994): 24 (Red Sea). — Kuiter (1997): 122 (Australia). — Fricke (1999): 210 (Mascarene Islands). — Hutchins (2001): 30 (Western Australia). — Senou (2002): 726 (Japan). — Randall et al. (2005): 119 (Marshall Islands). — Kuiter and Debelius (2007): 313 (South Africa). — Khalaf and Zajonz (2007): 427 (Gulf of Aqaba). — Fricke et al. (2009): 43 (La Réunion, Mauritius, and Comores). — Randall and Schraml (2010): 170 (Japan; Norfolk Island). — Bos and Gumanao (2013): 3 (Philippines). — Duffy and Ahyong (2015): 113 (Australia, New Zealand). — Stewart (2015): 1201 (New Zealand). — Golani and Fricke (2018): 60 (Red Sea). — Akhilesh et al. (2021): 49 (India). — Heemstra (2022): 79 (western Indian Ocean).</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>LBRC-F 367, 190.7 mm SL, LBRC-F 402, 152.1 mm SL,  off Lembeh Island, hook and line, 100–150 m (both purchased at Girian Fish Market, Bitung, northern Sulawesi, T. Peristiwady, 18 August and 13 December 2008, respectively)  .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Dorsal fin with 9 spines and 12 soft rays, fourth spine longest, its length 3.2–3.3 in HL, first and last dorsal spines subequal, their lengths about half length of fourth spine; anal fin with 3 spines and 9 soft rays, third or fourth ray longest, its length 2.5–2.8 in HL; pectoral fin with 15 rays; pored lateral-line scales 74–79; scales above lateral line 13; scales below lateral line 44; gill rakers on upper limb of first gill arch 9, lower limb 18, total 27; body depth 2.8–2.9 in SL; body width behind gill opening 2.8–3.0 in body depth; head length 2.4–2.5 in SL; snout relatively long, its length 6.6–6.9 in HL; mouth slightly oblique; pre-opercle coarsely serrated; subopercle and interopercle serrated; interorbital width 6.6–7.6 in HL; origin of pelvic fin just below origin of pectoral fin, pelvic fin short, its length 9.2–9.7 in HL, posterior tip not reaching anus when depressed; caudal peduncle depth 3.1–3.2 in HL; caudal peduncle length 2.1–2.3 in HL; head (except snout, interorbital, and maxillary) and body covered with ctenoid scales.</p><p>Color when fresh.</p><p>Body bluish grey, a bright yellow band running from near snout tip through eye, along upper part of back and dorsal fin base to upper and lower bases of caudal fin; a yellow streak along upper margin of upper jaw; soft portions of median fins with blackish rays and translucent membranes; pectoral and pelvic fin membranes translucent (Fig. 2 B).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The following diagnostic features of the presently reported specimens closely matched those of  A. temminckii given by Heemstra and Randall (1999): for example, dorsal fin single, with 9 spines and 12 soft rays, last two spines subequal; anal fin with 3 spines and 9 soft rays; body depth less than head length 2.8–2.9 in SL; caudal fin rounded; pelvic fin short, its posterior tip not reaching anus when depressed; posterior margin of pre-opercle, subopercle and interorpercle serrated; head and body scales ctenoid; body bluish-grey, with a bright yellow band from near front of upper jaw through eye, along upper part of back and dorsal fin base to caudal fin base.</p><p>There appears to be variation in the coloration of the posterior end of the yellow band running along the upper part of the body. Specimens of  A. temminckii collected from the Red Sea and Japanese waters exhibit the band terminating at the upper caudal fin base, accompanied by a yellow blotch on the lower caudal fin base (see Khalaf and Zajonz 2007: 427; Randall and Schraml 2010: fig. 4). In contrast, specimens from Norfolk Island show the band ending at the upper caudal fin base without a blotch on the lower base (see Randall and Schraml 2010: fig. 5). Meanwhile, specimens from the Philippines and Lembeh Island waters show the band extending posteriorly to form a vertical band across both the upper and lower bases of the caudal fin (see Bos and Gumanao 2013: fig. 4 A; this study: Fig. 2 B).</p><p>Although  A. temminckii is widely distributed in the Red Sea and Indo – west Pacific, except for the Hawaiian Islands (Fig. 1); it is relatively rare in collections (Baldwin and Smith 1998). The distribution of  A. temminckii in Southeast Asia was previously reported as limited to the Philippines (Bos and Gumanao 2013), the presently reported specimens being the first recorded from Indonesia.</p><p>Aulacocephalus temminckii is common in subtropical waters between 20 and 36 ° N or S (Randall et al. 1971) but has not previously been reported in equatorial waters (Randall 1982). Prior to the presently reported account, the lowest latitudes reported for  A. temminckii were 11 ° N (Port Blair, Andaman Islands) (Rangarajan 1969) and 11 ° S (Comoros, eastern Africa) (Fricke et al. 2009), considered as evidence of an anti-equatorial distribution (Randall 1982; Springer 1982; Fricke et al. 2009). However, Bos and Gumanao (2013) reported the first record of the species from the Philippines, based on a specimen collected at Peñaplata Public Market, southern Mindanao (caught latitude ca. 7 ° N in Samal Island, Davao Gulf). The presently reported specimen, collected off Lembeh Island (latitude 1.4 ° N) indicates that the anti-equatorial distribution, recognized by Randall (1982), Springer (1982), and Fricke et al. (2009), is no longer valid.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DCDB7A653DAA522F8129DB5FC94D738E	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wibowo, Kunto;Peristiwady, Teguh;Makatipu, Petrus;Oktaviyani, Selvia;Oktaviani, Dian;Wahyudewantoro, Gema	Wibowo, Kunto, Peristiwady, Teguh, Makatipu, Petrus, Oktaviyani, Selvia, Oktaviani, Dian, Wahyudewantoro, Gema (2025): First equatorial records of four marine fishes (Actinopterygii) caught off Lembeh Island, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 1-9, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.142574
6CB06B262BF35FF8BFAD912D21EFD66C.text	6CB06B262BF35FF8BFAD912D21EFD66C.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Iniistius geisha (Araga et Yoshino 1986)	<div><p>Iniistius geisha (Araga et Yoshino, 1986)</p><p>Fig. 3 A</p><p>Xyrichtys geisha Araga et Yoshino, 1986. — Araga and Yoshino (1986): 75 (type locality Okinawa Islands, Japan). — Shimada (2002): 1011 (Okinawa Islands, Japan).</p><p>Iniistius geisha (Araga et Yoshino, 1986). — Myers and Donaldson (2003): 631 (Mariana Islands). — Parenti and Randall (2010): 35. — Akaike et al. (2021): 45 (Amami, Okinawa, and Ogasawara islands, Japan). — Furuhashi and Motomura (2022): 16 (Tokara Islands, Japan).</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>LBRC-F 1681, 236.5 mm SL,  off Lembeh Island, Bitung, Indonesia, hook and line, 100–150 m (purchased at Girian Fish Market, Bitung, northern Sulawesi, T. Peristiwady, 2 April 2012)  .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Dorsal fin with 9 spines and 12 soft rays, second and third dorsal fin spines connected by low membrane; anal fin with 3 spines and 14 soft rays; pectoral fin with 12 rays; lateral line interrupted on posterior half of body, with 19 + 6 pores; scales above lateral line 3.5; scales below lateral line 12; gill rakers on upper limb of first gill arch 7, lower limb 11, total 18; body relatively deep, its depth 2.9 in SL; body strongly compressed, its width 3.1 in depth; head rounded, long, its length 2.9 in SL; anterior profile of head steep; interorbital space convex, its width 4.8 in HL; snout length 2.0 in HL; eye diameter 6.3 in HL; depth of caudal peduncle 2.3 in HL, its length 1.4 in caudal peduncle depth; mouth terminal, gape horizontal, posterior end of maxilla not reaching to vertical through anterior margin of orbit; pair of large, slightly recurved canine teeth projecting from tip of each jaw, lower pair inserted into space between somewhat separated upper canine teeth when mouth closed; 8 to 10 conical teeth in single row along sides of each jaw; cheeks with several scales, without grooves or ridges; origin of dorsal fin just above posterior margin of orbit; caudal fin short, its length 1.9 in HL, posterior margin slightly rounded; pectoral fin relatively long, its length 1.5 in HL; pelvic fin length 1.5 in HL, origin of pelvic fin just below pectoral fin base.</p><p>Color when fresh.</p><p>Snout and ventral surface of head whitish-grey, dorsal and ventral surface of body black, remainder of head and body yellowish red; dorsal, anal and pelvic fins entirely black; upper and lower half of caudal fin whitish and blackish, respectively; pectoral fin white, with black base (Fig. 3 A).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Iniistius geisha is easily distinguishable from other congeners due to its distinctive coloration (see Araga and Yoshino 1986: fig. 1; Akaike et al. 2021: fig. 1 F; Furuhashi and Motomura 2022: fig. 5 F; vs. Fig. 3 A of this study).</p><p>A relatively rare species,  I. geisha has been reported (based on several specimens) as having a limited Northern Hemisphere distribution, including southern Japan, Taiwan, and the Mariana Islands, ranging from 16 to 30 ° N (Shimada 2002; Myers and Donaldson 2003; Akaike et al. 2021; Furuhashi and Motomura 2022). The discovery of  I. geisha off Lembeh Island significantly extends the known geographical range of the species, being the first record of the species in equatorial waters and the southernmost occurrence reported to date (Fig. 1).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6CB06B262BF35FF8BFAD912D21EFD66C	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wibowo, Kunto;Peristiwady, Teguh;Makatipu, Petrus;Oktaviyani, Selvia;Oktaviani, Dian;Wahyudewantoro, Gema	Wibowo, Kunto, Peristiwady, Teguh, Makatipu, Petrus, Oktaviyani, Selvia, Oktaviani, Dian, Wahyudewantoro, Gema (2025): First equatorial records of four marine fishes (Actinopterygii) caught off Lembeh Island, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 1-9, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.142574
D6FFC215ADB8557E91349E884260F846.text	D6FFC215ADB8557E91349E884260F846.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Plectranthias yamakawai Yoshino 1972	<div><p>Plectranthias yamakawai Yoshino, 1972</p><p>Fig. 2 A</p><p>Plectranthias yamakawai Yoshino, 1972. — Yoshino (1972): 53, fig. 3 (type locality Ryukyu Islands, southern Japan). — Randall (1980): 184 (southern Japan). — Wass (1984): 12 (Samoan Islands). — Chen and Shao (2002): 64 (Taiwan). — Motomura and Matsuura (2010): 99 (southern Japan). — Wada et al. (2020): 305 (southern Japan). — Cabebe-Barnuevo et al. (2022): 300 (Luzon, Philippines).</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>LBRC-F 3002, 182.5 mm SL,  off Lembeh Island, Bitung, Indonesia, hook and line, 100–150 m depth (purchased at Girian Fish Market, Bitung, northern Sulawesi by T. Peristiwady, 22 December 2012)  .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Dorsal fin with 10 spines and 16 soft rays; anal fin with 3 spines and 7 soft rays; pectoral fin with 13 rays, uppermost unbranched; pored lateral-line scales 32; scales above lateral line 5; scales below lateral line 16; gill rakers on upper limb of first gill arch 6, lower limb 12, total 18; body compressed, its depth 2.3 in SL; body width 2.2 in body depth; head length 2.3 in SL; snout length 3.9 in HL; orbit diameter 4.4 in HL; upper jaw length 2.2 in HL; interorbital width 7.3 in HL; caudal peduncle depth 2.3 in HL; caudal peduncle length 3.3 in HL; dorsal profile of head forming angle of about 30 ° to horizontal axis of head and body, mouth terminal, oblique; vomer and palatine with teeth; posterior margin of maxilla just reaching vertical through midline of pupil; pre-opercle with two antrorse spines on ventral margin; opercle with three flat spines, uppermost blunt, middle largest; fourth dorsal-fin spine longest, fifth to last spines becoming progressively shorter; origin of first anal-fin spine about level with origin of third dorsal-fin soft ray, second anal-fin spine longest, second anal-fin soft ray longest; pectoral-fin ray long, its tip beyond base of first anal-fin spine; pelvic fin short, posterior tip not reaching anus when depressed; caudal fin weakly emarginate, some upper and lower rays somewhat filamentous.</p><p>Color when fresh.</p><p>Body orange dorsally and rosy ventrally; dorsum of head and body, including dorsal and caudal fin bases, with numerous small distinctive, yellow-fringed dark greenish spots; large red spot just below lateral line at center of body; dorsal, anal and caudal fins yellowish; pectoral and pelvic fins reddish (Fig. 2 A).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>The Lembeh Island specimen agreed closely with the diagnostic characters of  P. yamakawai given by Yoshino (1972), Randall (1980, 1996), Wada et al. (2020), and Cabebe-Barnuevo et al. (2022), viz. dorsal-fin soft rays 16; pectoral fin rays 13; pored lateral-line scales 32; pre-opercle with two antrorse spines on ventral margin; fourth dorsal-fin spine longest; dorsum of head and body, including dorsal and caudal fin bases, with numerous small distinctive yellow-fringed dark greenish spots; large red spot below lateral line at center of body. In addition, the specimen also matched the figure of the holotype of the species (see Randall 1980: 32) and the color photographs provided by Motomura et al. (2018: 97) and Cabebe-Barnuevo et al. (2022: fig. 1 A).</p><p>Plectranthias yamakawai has previously been reported only from southern Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Samoa, at latitudes of 15–30 ° N and 13 ° S (Wass 1984; Motomura and Matsuura 2010; Wada et al. 2020; Cabebe-Barnuevo et al. 2022; fig. 3). The presently reported specimen, collected off Lembeh Island at a latitude of 1.4 ° N, represents the first record of  P. yamakawai in equatorial and Indonesian waters.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D6FFC215ADB8557E91349E884260F846	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wibowo, Kunto;Peristiwady, Teguh;Makatipu, Petrus;Oktaviyani, Selvia;Oktaviani, Dian;Wahyudewantoro, Gema	Wibowo, Kunto, Peristiwady, Teguh, Makatipu, Petrus, Oktaviyani, Selvia, Oktaviani, Dian, Wahyudewantoro, Gema (2025): First equatorial records of four marine fishes (Actinopterygii) caught off Lembeh Island, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 1-9, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.142574
2690C8BE34C95E9189515F70F238DFDD.text	2690C8BE34C95E9189515F70F238DFDD.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Randallichthys filamentosus (Fourmanoir 1970)	<div><p>Randallichthys filamentosus (Fourmanoir, 1970)</p><p>English vernacular name: Randall’s snapper Fig. 3 B</p><p>Etelis filamentosus Fourmanoir, 1970. — Fourmanoir (1970): 28 (type locality New Caledonia).</p><p>Etelis nudimaxillaris Yoshino et Araga, 1975. — Yoshino and Araga (1975): 236 (type locality southern Japan).</p><p>Randallichthys filamentosus (Fourmanoir, 1970). — Anderson et al. (1977): 89 (Hawaiian Islands and New Caledonia). — Yoshino (1984): 167 (southern Japan, Hawaiian Islands, Guam and New Caledonia). — Allen (1985): 156 (southern Japan, Hawaiian Islands and New Caledonia). — Anderson and Allen (2001): 2916 (western central Pacific). — Shimada (2002): 827 (southern Japan). — Randall et al. (2002): 158 (Society and Tuamotu islands). — Myers and Donaldson (2003): 626 (Mariana Islands). — Randall et al. (2004): 16 (Tonga). — Leis (2005): 58 (Caroline Islands); Mundy (2005): 385 (Hawaiian Islands). — Randall et al. (2005): 123 (Marshall Islands). — Randall (2007): 251 (Hawaiian Islands). — Newman (2009): 1514 (Scott Reef, northwestern Australia).</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>LBRC-F 2425, 175.0 mm SL,  off Lembeh Island, Bitung, Indonesia, hook and line, more than 100 m depth (purchased at Girian Fish Market, Bitung, northern Sulawesi, T. Peristiwady, 20 December 2011)  .</p><p>Description.</p><p>Dorsal fin with 10 spines (third longest) and 11 soft rays (fourth longest), penultimate ray simple, not filamentous; anal fin with 3 spines and 9 soft rays; pectoral fin with 16 rays; pelvic fin with 1 spine and 5 rays; lateral line scales complete, with 50 pores; scales above lateral line 8; scales below lateral line 13; gill rakers (not including rudiments) on upper limb of first gill arch 5, lower limb 11, total 16; head relatively long, its length 2.9 in SL; body depth about equal to HL; body width 2.2 in body depth; dorsal-fin base length almost half of SL, 2.1 in SL; pectoral fin short, its length 1.8 in HL, base covered with scales, tip reaching vertical line through base of seventh dorsal-fin spine; pelvic fin short, its length 1.5 in HL, posterior tip not reaching anus when depressed; caudal fin lunate, scaly, its length 1.1 in HL, lower lobe with some filamentous rays; body covered with ctenoid scales; snout, interorbital, maxillary and dorsal and anal fin bases scaleless; head blunt, with flat interorbital space; lateral surface of maxilla with longitudinal ridges; posterior end of maxilla level of anterior margin of orbit; premaxillae not protrusible; lower jaw protruding; horizontal level of snout tip approximately through mid-orbit.</p><p>Color when fresh.</p><p>Head and body rosy red ventrally, yellowish tinge dorsally; body with four indistinct blackish bands; all fins rosy reddish or yellowish, with outer edge of spinous dorsal and pelvic fins black (Fig. 3 B).</p><p>Remarks.</p><p>Characters of the presently reported specimen followed those of  R. filamentosus given by Anderson et al. (1977), Yoshino (1984), Allen (1985), and Anderson and Allen (2001). The species can be easily distinguished from all other lutjanids by the following combination of characters: dorsal fin with 10 spines and 11 soft rays; maxilla and dorsal and anal-fin bases without scales; premaxillae not protrusible; lateral surface of maxilla with longitudinal ridges; vomer with teeth; pectoral-fin length less than HL (Anderson and Allen 2001; this study).</p><p>Randallichthys filamentosus has previously been recorded across a broad range of oceanic islands in the western and central Pacific, including those of southern Japan and Hawaii and the Mariana, Society, Tuamotu, Tonga and Marshall Islands, as well as Scott Reef (northwestern Australia), in latitudes of 8–27 ° N and 16–21 ° S (Fig. 1). Such a distribution has thus far supported Randall’s (1982) categorization of  R. filamentosus as an anti-equatorial species. However, the presently reported specimen, collected off Lembeh Island (latitude 1.4 ° N), is the first record of  R. filamentosus from equatorial Indonesian waters, prompting a reconsideration of Randall’s (1982) anti-equatorial classification.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2690C8BE34C95E9189515F70F238DFDD	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wibowo, Kunto;Peristiwady, Teguh;Makatipu, Petrus;Oktaviyani, Selvia;Oktaviani, Dian;Wahyudewantoro, Gema	Wibowo, Kunto, Peristiwady, Teguh, Makatipu, Petrus, Oktaviyani, Selvia, Oktaviani, Dian, Wahyudewantoro, Gema (2025): First equatorial records of four marine fishes (Actinopterygii) caught off Lembeh Island, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 55: 1-9, DOI: 10.3897/aiep.55.142574
