Megalops cyprinoides (Broussonet 1782)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 48-49

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4588.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7390B16-569F-46A2-A823-0018E1934873

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10446865

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1577035E-802B-FF97-EDFC-C9BC18410F61

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Megalops cyprinoides (Broussonet 1782)
status

 

Megalops cyprinoides (Broussonet 1782) View in CoL — Indo-Pacific tarpon

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market.

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2.—General distribution: Red Sea, East and South Africa east to Society Islands, north to southern Korea, south to northern Australia. Adults in coastal waters, juveniles in mangrove habitats, estuaries and lower reaches of freshwater streams, 0–50 m depth. Freshwater, transitional water and marine.

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