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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journal article
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Chlorurus spilurus
(Valenciennes in
Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840
)
—Bullethead parrotfish
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP
Survey
at
Kavieng
fish market in
2004–2005
; a video of a specimen taken off
southeastern New Hanover
, at
6–21 m
depth,
St. KR
124, in 2014 (identified by
Barry C. Russell
).
This
species was previously known from the western and
central Pacific
as
C. sordidus
(non
Forsskål in Niebuhr
1775).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 1, 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and
South Africa
,
Madagascar
and Mascarenes east to Hawaiian Islands and
Pitcairn
Group, north to Ryukyu and Ogasawara islands, south to Western Australia, Lord Howe Island and Rapa. Found on reef flats and lagoon and seaward coral and rocky reefs, as well as along drop-offs; juveniles in coral rubble areas of reef flats and lagoons,
1–50 m
depth. Marine.