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Yellowspotted Boarfish
Paristiopterus gallipavo Whitley, 1944
A Yellowspotted Boarfish at a depth of 20 m, Wirrina Reef, South Australia, February 1987. Photo © D. Muirhead. View larger image.
The Yellowspotted Boarfish has a moderately deep, compressed body. The dorsal fin spines are long, the posterior five are longer than the soft dorsal fin rays.
This species is white to brown or grey with brown stripes on the side of the body and yellow to brown spots.
It grows to 60 cm in length.
The Yellowspotted Boarfish is endemic to Australia. It is a bottom dwelling species that is known from temperate continental shelf and slope waters of eastern South Australia to the central coast of Western Australia.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
The Yellowspotted Boarfish has also been called the Brown-spotted Boarfish and Yellowspotted Penfish.
This species was described in 1944 by Australian Museum Fish Curator Gilbert Whitley.
Related links
- Giant Boarfish fact sheet
- Longsnout Boarfish fact sheet
- Short Boarfish fact sheet
- View the Boarfishes list
Further reading
- Hardy, G.S. in Gomon, M.F., Glover, C.J.M. & R.H. Kuiter (Eds). 1994. The Fishes of Australia's South Coast. State Print, Adelaide. Pp. 992.
- Hutchins, B. & R. Swainston. 1986. Sea Fishes of Southern Australia. Complete Field Guide for Anglers and Divers. Swainston Publishing. Pp. 180.
