Maori Chief Fish

Maori chieftain is a large bottom-dwelling fish that is not too unlike Maori pout.

Maori chieftain is a large bottom-dwelling fish that is not too unlike Maori pout. Many small gray patches and stripes on the top of the heads indicate the complexity of a tattoo once carried by M?ori chieftains, and the flippers are gray with slightly deeper patches. Present also in South-South America.

New Zealand rock fish (Te Ikaaria o Aotearoa). New Zealand Museum (Te Papa Tongarewa).

These are notothenia angeustata, Maori chief

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Trophiic level (ref.): 4.2 0.54 se; Basing on foods.

7. - inshore fish - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand

This colorful inshore fish have two barbs (fleshy threads) that extend from their chin - similar to a billy whiskers. There is a shared variety, the redbarb (Upeneichthys lineatus), and two rarer ones - the spotted one ( "Parupeneus spilurus") and the redfish ( "Upeneus francisi"). Cheilodactylus Spectabiliis (red moki) is a special variety with alternately redbrown and whitish streaks.

They are most common off the North Island around the reef and off the coast of Australia. Frequently floating in casual association with rose Maomao, the magnificent bass (Callanthias australis) is called after its marks. You can find them mainly around the North Island, but sometimes also in the sun as far as Westport. Caprodon longimanus, known under M?ori as the maata, usually live in areas with temperate current, under 10 meters.

There are plenty of them around cliffy promontories and islets up to a depth of 80 meters. It is a swarm fish that feeds on the planet until dawn. Most of them are located on the north-east shore of the northern island. You are a local fish from the bay of Plenty in the south. Chromis disperilus occurs mainly in the warm water around the northern island, where it is one of the most common planktonic fish.

This small fish (10-20 centimeters) are called the swallow of the ocean because they fall and scurry when catching fish that are carried by current. They have deep bifurcated cocks like dovetails that open and shut like a pair of claws so that they can turn and turn as they eat. Densely populated shoals of up to 500 fish offer shelter when predatory fish such as kingfishers strike.

It is also known as M?ori Chief, and is quite widespread in cliffy areas around South New Zealand and some sub-Antarctic isles. The trumpet player (Latris lineata), also known as koikohi, is a scarce fish found on the coral reefs just to the east of the Cape. With an average length of 50-80 centimeters, they live on small fish, octopuses and squids and are very popular with leisure-fishers.

The telescopic table (Mendosoma lineatum), found mainly southwards of the Cook Strait on cliffy shores, is more common around the southerly isle. It is a short-lived school near the reef. With their telescopic cheeks they eat small fish and shellfish.