Painted moki

The painted moki (Cheilodactylus ephippium) is a morwong, a species of fish found off southern Australia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, and northern New Zealand including the Kermadec Islands, from shallow depths to 250 m, on rocky reef and coastal areas. Its length is up to 50 cm.[1][2] Although traditionally included in the genus Cheilodactylus in family Cheilodactylidae, based on genetic and morpological analyses it belongs in the genus Morwong in family Latridae.[3][4]

Painted moki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Cheilodactylidae
Genus:	Cheilodactylus
Species:	C. ephippium
Binomial name
Cheilodactylus ephippium McCulloch & Waite, 1916

References

1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2011). "Cheilodactylus ephippium" in FishBase. September 2011 version.
2. Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
3. Ludt, W.B., Burridge, C.P. & Chakrabarty, P. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 585(1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.7
4. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Morwong". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 July 2019.