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
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1
360
journal article
26780
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Pristiapogon kallopterus
(Bleeker 1856)
—Iridescent cardinalfish
Status at
New Ireland
.
First recorded from
St. Mathias
as
Apogon snyderi
by
Duncker & Mohr (1929
: 58), based on ZMH 11963; a video of a specimen taken in
Steffen Channel
,
Kavieng District
,
St. KR
34, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
); another taken at
Anelaua Island
, off
eastern New Hanover
, at
3–16 m
depth,
St. KR
98, in 2014.
Distribution
and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2, 4.—
General
distribution:
Red Sea
,
East
and
South Africa
east to
Hawaiian
and
Pitcairn islands
, north to
southern Japan
, south to
northern Australia
,
Lord Howe
and
Kermadec islands
,
Tonga
and
Rapa. Solitary
or in small groups, cryptic in crevices during the day, in relatively clear and silty waters on reef flats, lagoon and seaward coral and rocky reefs,
0–48 m
depth.
Marine
.