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
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journal article
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Plagiotremus tapeinosoma
(Bleeker 1857)
—Piano fangblenny
Status at
New Ireland
. New record
, based on a video of a specimen taken off Nusa Island, Kavieng District,
2–18 m
depth, St. KR32, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).
FIGURE 123
.
Petroscirtes breviceps
(Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1836)
, Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 27 May 2007 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).
Distribution and habitat.
New Ireland
: 2.—General distribution: South and East Africa,
Seychelles
,
Madagascar
and western Mascarenes east to
Wake
Atoll and
Pitcairn
Group, north to central
Japan
and Ogasawara Islands, south to
Western Australia
,
New South Wales
(
Australia
), northern
New Zealand
,
New Caledonia
and Rapa. Found in lagoon and seaward reefs,
1–20 m
depth. Marine.