Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
Author
Andréfouët, Serge
Author
Chen, Wei-Jen
Author
Kinch, Jeff
Author
Mana, Ralph
Author
Russell, Barry C.
Author
Tully, Dean
Author
White, William T.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
1
1
360
journal article
26780
10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1
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Cephalopholis spiloparaea
(Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1828)
—Strawberry grouper, tomato
grouper
Status at
New Ireland
.
First
recorded from
Lihir Group
,
Namatamai District
,
New Ireland
by
Fry
et al
. (2006
: 130).
Specimens
observed by
Jeff Kinch
during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in
2004–2005
.
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 2, 5.—General distribution: East Africa,
Comores
and western Mascarenes east to
Pitcairn
Group, north to
Taiwan
, Ogasawara and
Wake
islands, south to Western Australia,
New Caledonia
and Rapa. Solitary in coral reefs, usually on steep outer slopes,
15–108 m
depth. Marine.