explorer Admiral Cornelis de Vlamingh (1678-1735). On his voyages in Australia de Vlamingh collected and illustrated fishes for the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris and Cuvier partly based his description of this species on a copy of one of de Vlamingh's illustrations which had been copied by another illustrator. It has been treated as a subspecies of the blue-striped goatfish. References Upeneichthys Marine fish of Southern Australia Fish of the Indian Ocean Fish of the Pacific Ocean Endemic fauna of Australia Fish described in 1829 Taxa named by Georges Cuvier