Pseudanthias dispar (Herre 1955)

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 : 123

Pseudanthias dispar (Herre 1955) —Redfin anthias ( Fig. 56 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on specimens photographed on 2 June 2013, first dive, during ACIAR Aquarium Survey at Kavieng (see Teitelbaum et al. 2013: 14). Specimens photographed at Lissenung Island by Dietmar Amon on 14 June 2007 and 8 July 2008; a video of a specimen taken at Tungelo Island , off southeastern New Hanover , at 3–46 m depth, St. KR 104, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.— Christmas Island (eastern Indian Ocean) east to Line Islands and Samoa, north to Yaeyama Islands, south to northern Australia. In large aggregations above the upper edge of steep coral reef slopes, 1–32 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 56. Pseudanthias dispar (Herre 1955), Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 8 July 2008 (underwater photograph: Dietmar Amon).