Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
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Andréfouët, Serge
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Chen, Wei-Jen
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Kinch, Jeff
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Mana, Ralph
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Russell, Barry C.
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Tully, Dean
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White, William T.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-04-23
4588
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Chrysiptera biocellata
(Quoy & Gaimard 1825)
—Twospot damselfish
Status at
New Ireland
.
First recorded from
New Ireland
as
Glyphidodon biocellatus
by
Peters (1877
: 843); reported from St. Mathias as
Glyphidodon antjerius
by
Duncker & Mohr (1929
: 67), and from
New Ireland
as
Abudefduf biocellata
by
Munro (1958
: 230); a specimen observed at Kulaumis Island, Kavieng District,
1–10 m
depth, St. T17, on
4 Nov. 2006
, by Gerald R. Allen. ZMH material.
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 2, 4.—General distribution: East Africa east to
Caroline Islands
and
Samoa
, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern
Australia
and
New Caledonia
. Found on coral rubble, or on outcrops of coastal and lagoon reefs,
0–5 m
depth. Marine.